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                   Mary McLeod Bethune

   July 10, 1875 in Mayesville, SC a future educator and US Presidential advisor would be born to parents, whom had both grown up as slaves. This educator/advisor was Mary McLeod Bethune. One of 18 children her parents had, she was the only one to get an education. Mary attended bible school in Chicago, then dedicated herself to teaching others. She'd teach in Georgia and South Carolina before founding "Florida's Daytona Normal and Industrial Institute for Girls," in 1904. By 1923, this school would merge with Cookman Institute for Men, to become Bethune-Cookman College.  1935 Ms. McLeod Bethune founded the National Council for Negro Women. A year later, she was appointed by President F.D. Roosevelt to director of the Division of Negro Affairs of the National Youth Administration. She served as a consultant to the United Nations, was Vice President of the NAACP, had been honored by Haiti and Liberia and now has a memorial in Lincoln Park in Washington DC. In 1985 she was even put on her very own postage stamp.

Mary McLeod Bethune died May 18, 1955.