“From the first, I made my
learning, what little it was,
useful every way I could.”

Mary Bethune was the 15th of 17 children born to two ex-slaves in South Carolina in 1875. In 1904, she started a school for African-American girls in Florida which later became Bethune-Cookman College. She later served as an adviser to President Franklin Roosevelt and as a consultant to the panel developing the United Nations charter.

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