Mary Bethune The Road To Education

Shirley Chisholm is an African American politician, educator, and author. She is the first African American to be in Congress. On August 10, 1970 she stood in front of the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC to present a speech. The speech called “For the Equal Rights Amendment”, communicates the discrimination against women and how they’re being treated against men. She uses ethos, logos, pathos and questions to help explain how women are treated unfairly.

On December 23, 1897, Sarah Breedlove who is now known as Madam CJ Walker, was born on a delta on a Louisiana Plantation where her parents, Owen and Minerva Anderson Breedlove worked and were enslaved prior to the civil war. Although she was the first child of her siblings to be born after the abolition of slavery, she faced just as many hard times. Walker was however able to renovate herself from an illiterate laundress and farm girl to a highly successful business women. By doing so she beat all odds because she was not only black but a woman during a time that saw value in neither. Walker led a movement of great proportion to answer that inequality in life. Even though she died long ago, her legacy lives on in all of the people who

     Mary McLeod Bethune was an innovative leader because she took a story which was largely latent in the population, equal education rights for black children, and brought it to national prominence through the creation of the Bethune-Cookman college. She was also a visionary leader because of the incredible success she was able to attain in advancing the cause of equal education.

Mary Ann Shadd Cary was one of the most influential African-American, female leaders during the Antebellum era. As an advocate for equality and integration, Cary contributed an immense amount of effort towards establishing the foundation of black livelihood. Though labeled inferior on the basis of ethnicity and gender, she was a fierce, headstrong, successful activist in a political world dominated by white males. This essay will analyze Cary’s approach to solidifying African American safety and nationalism during the 19th century.

She showed them that they could be equal. The only difference was the color of the skin. She taught them that that wasn’t even a big difference. She fought segregation her entire life.

Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune is the founder of the Daytona Normal and Industrial institute in 1094, then later became Bethune-Cookman College. Mary was born on July 10, 1875, In Mayesville, South Carolina. She grew up in poverty, everyone in her family worked in fields picking cotton. Out of 17 children Bethune was the only one that went to school. There was a missionary school that opened nearby for African-American children. She would walk to school every day, traveling miles away from her home. When she comes back to school she would share her knowledge with the rest of her family.

Mary Chesnut was the author of a popular book known as the “Civil War Diary.” This well-known book painted a vivid picture of her thoughts on the things going on around her pertaining to the war. She was one of the most respected ladies of Charleston, S.C with an insightful view of Southern life and leadership during the American Civil War. In 1840 she married James Chesnut, Jr., who later served as a U.S. senator from South Carolina until he resigned. Chesnut writings were from things she personally experienced, witnessed and saw during this historic time, along with her husband who she joined along the way of many significant sites they encountered, being that he played an important role in the secession movement and the Confederacy. Despite

Sojourner Truth especially was a strong advocate for equal rights around the 1850's, not only just for blacks, but for women as well.

Who is Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune? Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune is the founder of Bethune Cookman College. She was born and raised in Mayesville, South Carolina. Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune was a emancipated slave along with her parents and sixteen siblings. They did not live in better days that I do today. Living in the times of segregation, freedom for African Americans is not an option. Forced to believe that picking cotton would one make her free. Being a child of many, Dr Mary McLeod Bethune was the only one to attend school, and where she learned to read. She was given a scholarship to a all girls school called Scotia Seminary in North Carolina. She then attended Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, Illinois. Attending there she found her passion of

Mary Mcleod Bethune was an african american woman born in Mayesville South Carolina on july 10 ,1875.Mary Mcleod was the fifteenth to seventeenth children born by her mother and father sam and patsy mcleod ,which were slaves and mary even part took in working with them on the farm at the age of five. Mary's highest thought and interest was education, and with the help of benefactors she attended college at Barber-scotia college located in Concord, North carolina. Bethune was a stateswoman, humanitarian and more known as a civil rights activist .Mary had a teaching career and taught in a couple of places like an elementary school in Sumter county , florida and also a industrial institute named Haines Normal located in augusta georgia .As long

Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune was born on July 10,1875 in Mayesville, South Carolina. She was the 15th child of former salves and became an educator, civil rights leader, and an adviser to five U.S. presidents. Throughout the course her life, Mary Bethune had the aspiration of opening up her own school due to the fact that she worked in the fields with her parents, and was finally enrolled in school at the age of ten. While working toward her goal of building Bethune-Cookman University, Mary became a national leader on issues relating to civil rights, education, women, and young people. She also fought against school segregation and disparities in healthcare for black children. Dr. Bethune was appointed numerous national commissions some including

Mary Terrell fought passionately for the equality of African Americans, education reform amongst children of color, and lastly, the rights of women of color through women's suffrage. Terrell worked very hard until the end of her years and died two months after the decision of Brown v. Board of Education (“Today in History”). Terrell voiced her opinion by protesting, picketing the white house, writing books, newspapers and giving plenty of powerful and motivational speeches. Interestingly, the impact that she had on the public, through her speeches was immense. Moreover, she represented women of color by demonstrating the skills and abilities of African American women to the world. All the while facing opposition along the way from white women

On July 10, 1875, the birth of the remarkable Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune brought us great appurtenances. Often referred to as “lady of the struggle” she was an equal parts educator and politician. She earned the label of being the most prominent and powerful African-American woman in the early 20th century.

Education has always been valued in the African American community. During slavery freed slaves and those held captive, organized to educate themselves. After emancipation the value of education became even more important to ex-slaves, as it was their emblem of freedom and a means to full participation in American Society (Newby & Tyack, 1971). During this time many schools for African Americans were both founded and maintained by African Americans. African Americans continued to provide education throughout their own communities well into the 1930’s (Green, McIntosh, Cook-Morales, & Robinson-Zanartu, 2005). The atmosphere of these schools resembled a family. The

In Philadelphia, Pittsburgh on September 12, 1859 Florence Kelley was born to William D. Kelley. Florence was very smart and well educated. She studied at Cornell University, Northwestern University, and the University of Zurich. In her lifetime she also founded two organizations. The two organizations she founded were the National Consumers League and the National Child Labor Committee. She was a very successful women.