Bethune, Mary McLeod, 1875-1955
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found: McKissack, P. Mary McLeod Bethune, 1985.
found: LC data base, 5/15/85(hdg.: Bethune, Mary Jane McLeod, 1875-1955; usage: Mary Mcleod Bethune)
found: NUCMC data from Fisk Univ. for Mary McLeod Bethune papers, 1928-1943
found: Biography Resource Center, Dec. 5, 2003(Bethune, Mary (McLeod) (July 10, 1875-May 18, 1955), college president and government official, was born in Mayesville, S.C., one of seventeen children of Samuel McLeod and Patsy McIntosh McLeod; May 1898 she married Albertus L. Bethune, a schoolteacher, who later left her and died October 22, 1918 [in Daytona Beach, Fla.])
found: African American National Biography, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014:(Bethune, Mary McLeod; social reformer, women's rights advocate, civil rights activist, organization founder / official; born 10 July 1875 near Mayesville, South Carolina, United States; graduated from Scotia Seminary (later Barber-Scotia College) in Concord, North Carolina (1894); founded the Daytona Normal and Industrial Institute for Training Negro Girls in Daytona, Florida (1904); vice president of the National Urban League (1920); president of the National Association of Colored Women (1924-1928); founder and president of the National Council of Negro Women (1935); president of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, later known as the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History (1936-1950); director in charge of Negro Affairs in the New Deal National Youth Administration (NYA); died 18 May 1955 in Daytona Beach, Florida, United States)
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1985-05-20: new
2023-01-18: revised
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