How did Mary McLeod Bethune change the world??

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Answer 1

What an amazing woman!

She founded the Daytona Normal and Industrial Institute for ***** Girls (now Bethune-Cookman College) in 1904, and served as president from 1904-1942 and from 1946-47.

Was a leader in the black women's club movement and served as president of the National Association of Colored Women.

Was a delegate and advisor to national conferences on education, child welfare, and home ownership.

Was Director of ***** Affairs in the the National Youth Adminstration from 1936 to 1944.

Served as consultant to the U.S. Secretary of War for selection of the first female officer candidates.

Appointed consultant on interracial affairs and understanding at the charter conference of the U.N. Founder of the National Council of ***** Women.

Vice-president of the NAACP.

Was awarded the Haitian Medal of Honor and Merit, that country's highest award.

In Liberia she received the honor of Commander of the Order of the Star of Africa.


She grew up picking cotton as a field slave. She was 17 of 18 children in a slave family. Look what she did in the world!

A U.S. educator born to former slaves, she made her way through college and in 1904 founded a school that later became part of Bethune-Cookman College in Daytona Beach, Fla. She was president of the college from 1923–42 and 1946–47. Prominent in African-American organizations, particularly women's groups, she directed the Division of ***** Affairs of the National Youth Administration (1936–44).

Bethune worked for the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932, and attempted to get him to support a proposed law against lynching. Although the Costigan-Wagner bill was not passed, they did raise more public awareness of the lynching issue. She was also a member of Roosevelt's Black Cabinet.


She changed the world not only by her legacy of deeds and accomplishments to th world. She left it a better place.


She also sets an example, as does Oprah Winfrey, of what a woman from the lowest levels of society can do if she is determined to make a change.

http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/tlresources/units/Byrnes-famous/mbethune.html

Answer 2

I just had such a great list for you and it didn't post. Hoping I can recreate it..... 1) Betty Williams 2) Mairead Corrigan 3) Mary Wollstonecraft 4) Mary Shelly 5) Lucretia Mott 6) Florence Nightengale 7) Clara Barton 8) Janet Reno 9) Madelaine Albright 10) Golda Meir 11) Indira Gandhi 12) Mylie Evers 13) Mother Jones (Mary Harris Jones) 14) Bella Abzug 15) Michelle Triola Marvin 16) Billy Jean King 17) Margaret Thatcher 18) Maya Angelou 19) Rachel Carson 20) Rigoberta Menchu 21) Margaret Sanger 22) Frances Farmer 23) Betty Ford 24) Geraldine Ferraro 25) Wilma Mankiller

Answer 3

Mary McLeod Bethune, Educator / Activist

Born: 10 July 1875
Birthplace: Mayesville, South Carolina
Died: 18 May 1955
Best Known As: The founder of the National Council for ***** Women
Mary McLeod Bethune was an educator and school founder who served as an unofficial advisor on African-American issues to presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman. Born to parents who had grown up as slaves, Mary was the only one of 17 children in her family to go to school. After attending bible college in Chicago, she dedicated herself to educating others. She worked in Georgia and South Carolina, then founded Florida's Daytona Normal and Industrial Institute for Girls in 1904. The school merged with the Cookman Institute for Men in 1923 and became Bethune-Cookman College, one of the few black colleges in the country. A firm believer in education as a path to racial equality, Bethune focused on vocational education and social activism and became a worldwide public figure. In 1935 she founded the National Council for ***** Women, and in 1936 she was appointed by President Roosevelt as the director of the Division of ***** Affairs of the National Youth Administration, a post she held until 1943, when she returned to her school in Daytona Beach. She also served as a consultant to the United Nations, was honored in Haiti and Liberia and was a vice president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. One of the most famous black women leaders of her day, Bethune has been honored with a memorial in Lincoln Park in Washington, D.C. (1974) and a U.S. postage stamp (1985).

Answer 4

Mary Mcleod Bethune changed the world by helping african american girls how to read and right and get an education

Answer 5

It seems she was quite the pioneer for black women...read on
http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/beth-mar.htm