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Mary Mcleod Bethune

Illustrated portrait of Mary Mcleod Bethune

Mary McLeod Bethune founded a school for Black girls in Daytona Beach in 1904. An educator and civil rights leader, she also founded the National Council of Negro Women and advised President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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