| NAME OF LEADER | DESCRIPTION |
| MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE | She was an American educator, philanthropist, humanitarian, womanist, and civil rights activist. Bethune founded the National Council of Negro Women in 1935, established the organization’s flagship journal Aframerican Women’s Journal, and presided as president or leader for myriad African American women’s organizations including the National Association for Colored Women and the National Youth Administration’s Negro Division. She also was appointed as a national adviser to president Franklin D. Roosevelt, whom she worked with to create the Federal Council on colored Affairs, also known as the Black Cabinet. She is well known for starting a private school for African-American students in Daytona Beach, Florida. It later continued to develop as Bethune-Cookman University. Bethune was the sole African American woman officially a part of the US delegation that created the United Nations charter, and she held a leadership position for the American Women’s Voluntary Services founded by Alice Throckmorton McLean. For her lifetime of activism, she was deemed “acknowledged First Lady of Negro America” by Ebony magazine in July 1949 |
| DESCRIPTION | NAME OF SITE | CITY | STATE |
| BIRTHPLACE | SMALL LOG CABIN | NEAR MAYSVILLE (SUMTER COUNTY) | SOUTH CAROLINA |
| HISTORIC SITE | MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE COUNCIL HOUSE NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE | WASHINGTON DC | WASHINGTON DC |
| HISTORIC BUILDING | NATIONAL COUNCIL OF NEGRO WOMEN | WASHINGTON DC | WASHINGON DC |
| ALMA MATER- BEGAN TEACHING | HAINES NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE | AUGUSTA | GEORGIA |
| ALMA MATER | KINDELL INSITUTE | SUMTER | SOUTH CAROLINA |
| ALMA MATER | COOKMAN-BETHUNE-UNIVERSITY | DAYTONA BEACH | FLORIDA |
| MUSEUM | WORLD METHODIST MUSEUM | LAKE JUNALUSKA | NORTH CAROKINA |
| AFFILIATIONS | NATIONAL COUNCIL OF NEGRO WOMEN | WASHINGTON DC | WASHINGTON DC |
| DEATHPLACE | HOUSE | DAYTONA BEACH | FLORIDA |
| BURIAL PLACE | BETHUNE-COOKMAN COLLEGE CAMPUS GROUNDS | DAYTONA BEACH | FLORIDA |
| FUNERAL SERVICE | AUDITORIUM OF THE WHITE HALL- COOKMAN-BETHUNE-UNIVERSITY | DAYTONA BEACH | FLORIDA |
| STATUE | MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE STATUE | JERSEY CITY | NEW JERSEY |
| MEMORIAL | MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE MEMORIAL | WASHINGTON DC | WASHINGTON DC |
SHE LIVED HERE FROM BIRTH UNTIL 1875. MCLEOD WAS BORN IN 1875 IN A SMALL LOG CABIN NEAR MAYSVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA, ON A RICE AND COTTON FARM IN SUMTER COUNTY. SHE WAS THE SEVENTEENTH CHILDREN BORN SAM AND PATSY.
MAYSVILLE SOUTH CAROLINA
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| NAME OF LEADER | DESCRIPTION ( TIMELINE ) |
| MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE | Maysville did not have a school for blacks until Emma Wilson, an African American teacher and missionary, founded the Trinity Presbyterian Mission School in 1882. |
| NAME OF LEADER | DESCRIPTION ( TIMELINE ) |
| MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE | MAYSVILLE SCHOOL- In 1885, Mary became the first member of her family to attend the new school. For the next several years, she walked five miles to the one-room school. |
| NAME OF LEADER | DESCRIPTION ( TIMELINE) |
| MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE | BARBER SCOTIA COLLEGE – Wilson chose her as the recipient of a scholarship to attend Scotia Seminary, a school for black women in North Carolina. |
| NAME OF LEADER | DESCRIPTION ( TIMELINE) |
| MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE | After McLeod graduated in 1894, her benefactor paid for her to attend the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. |
| NAME OF LEADER | DESCRIPTION ( TIMELINE) |
| MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE | SOON SHE MOVED TO AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, TO TEACH AT HAINES NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE. THERE SHE WORKED WITH LUCY LANEY, FOUNDER AND PRINCIPAL OF THE SCHOOL. LANEY’S DEDICATION TO SERVING OTHERS INSPIRED MCLEOD. |
| NAME OF LEADER | DESCRIPTION ( TIMELINE) |
| MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE | SHE RETURNED TO MAYSVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA, AND BEGAN TEACHING AT HER FORMER SCHOOL. |
| NAME | DESCRIPTION ( TIMELINE) |
| MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE | The couple had a son in February 1899 and shortly thereafter moved to Palatka, Florida, where Mrs. Bethune opened a mission school for poor African American children. |
| NAME OF LEADER | DESCRIPTION |
| MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE | In October 1904, the Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls |
| NAME OF LEADER | DESCRIPTION- TIMELINE |
| MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE | In 1923, it merged with a college in Jacksonville, Florida, and became Bethune-Cookman College with almost 800 students. Bethune remained president of the school until 1942, when she resigned in order to focus on her national agenda. |
| ACTIVIST | DESCRIPTION ( TIMELINE) |
| MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE | MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE HISTORIC SITE- 1875-1955 |
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| NAME OF LEADER | DESCRIPTION- TIMELINE |
| MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE | In 1923, it merged with a college in Jacksonville, Florida, and became Bethune-Cookman College with almost 800 students. Bethune remained president of the school until 1942, when she resigned in order to focus on her national agenda. |
| PICTURES | PERSONAL COLLECTION |
| REFERENCE | Social Welfare History Project Bethune, Mary McLeod (vcu.edu |