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Mary McLeod Bethune was born on July 10, 1875 born as Mary Jane McLeod.
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Mary recieved a scholarship/recommended to attend Scotia Seminary in North Carolina. While attending Scotia a teacher once told her "That the color`s of a person`s skin has nothing to do with his brains, and that color, caste, or class distinction." What that teacher told her opened her eyes to something new.
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Mary McLeod Graduated from Scotia.
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While teaching at Kendell Institute in Sumpter, South Carolina, she met Albertus Bethune, a teacher whom she married in 1898.
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February 3, 1899, Bethune gave birth to her only child, Albertus McLeod Bethune, Jr.
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With a young son to support and only 29 years old, Mary McLeod Bethune opened the Daytona Beach Literary and Industrial School for Training Negro Girls, now known as Bethune Cookman College.
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In 1924, Bethune was elected as the president of the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs.
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1935, she became the founding president of the National Council of Negro Women.
