Mary Mcleod Bethune

     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.

There is a deep emotional attachment towards the story “Kabnis,” that the author felt: “I want Kabnis to remain an immediate record of my first contact with Southern life” (Foley 156). As mentioned earlier, Toomer traveled to Sparta in late September 1921, “a year when more lynchings occurred throughout the South than in any previous years other than 1909” (158). In fact, there were about 429 total of lynchings just in Georgia during that year. Toomer based the lynching of Mame Lamkins on real life Mary Turner: “They kill her in th street, an some white man seein th risin in her stomach as she lay there soppy in her blood like any cow, took an ripped her belly open, an the kid fell out. It was living; but a nigger baby aint supposed t live.

During the nineteenth century, Women began to have an important role in natural rights and female education. Dorothea Dix and Mary Lyons spent their life fighting to help better society. Dorothea Dix was tireless in exposing mistreatment of those who were diagnosed with mental illness or who were institutionalized in the 19th century. She helped effect change for thousands of people. Mary Lyon was a female educator. She founded Mount Holyoke College, the first women’s college.

The freedom and right to be able to freely express thoughts, opinions, and concerns are critical in the efficiency and fluency of American and Canadian democracy. With such a large and vast nation, there is bound to be a parallel in size of diverse thinking and perspective. In order to properly and directly voice these opinions,there needs to be a type of media to do so with. In her 1854 editorial, Mary Ann Shadd Cary goes on to discuss the importance of one particular form of media; the newspaper. Cary is able to explain that need for expression of opinion through media, the need for “colored canadians” to specifically have their own paper, and that need to inform misinformed citizens on Canada’s issues through her own style of diction to

Mary Jo Peckham Park is a free park to have fun.The park in Katy, Texas and named after Mary Jo Peckham. Mary Jo Peckham was an active woman in the Assistance League of Houston, which is an all-volunteer, non-profit organization committed to serving children and adults in need from the surrounding communities. The park opened in 1991 to offer lots of fun for children, adults, families, older people, and even people with disabilities, and in Harris County Precinct 3. The park occupies thirty-two acres with playgrounds, golfing, a picnic pavilion, a fishing lake, ducks, walking trail, and a pool. Mary Jo Peckham Park is a safe place for a family to go and enjoy family fun. Harris County Precinct 3 regularly

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.

Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune has paved the way for african-american adolescents, like myself, to live a life of greater quality. Being born of slaves, no one imagined that her values would manifest into a prestigious Historically Black College/University. From toiling in fields with her family, to becoming the president of an accredited college was a huge accomplishment for blacks at the time. Mary Bethune’s prosperity didn’t conclude with the commencement of her own distinguished university, but she became a national leader. The National Association of Colored Women became popularized for advocating the enhancement of colored women in society. In this organization, Bethune served as Florida chapter president from 1917 to 1925. Her duties included:

Mary Church Terrell was born to her parents Robert Reed Church and Louisa Ayers on September 23, 1863 in Memphis, Tennessee. Mary Church Terrell was known for many things, such as being the first African American woman to obtain a college degree, her advocacy for civil rights, and her book titled, “A Colored Woman in a White World.”

Born Mary Jane Mcleod on July 10, 1875, in Mayesville, South Carolina, Mary Mcleod Bethune was a leading educator and civil rights activist. She grew up in poverty, as one of 17 children born to former slaves. Traveling miles each way, she walked to school each day and did her best to share her newfound knowledge with her family. Bethune later received a scholarship to the Scotia Seminary, a school for girls in Concord, North Carolina. After graduating from the seminary in 1893, she went to the Dwight Moody's Institute for Home and Foreign Missions in Chicago. Bethune complete her studies there two years later. Returning to the South, she began her career as a teacher. She married fellow teacher Albertus Bethune in 1898. The couple had one

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 jane McLeod Bethune a woman of great wisdom and power. She was born on July 10th 1875 and she passed May 18th 1955. Dr. McLeod was known for starting a private school for African-American students. This school developed into one the greatest HBCU Bethune-Cookman University home of the wildcats.

One of her letters she sent asking for support reached James Gamble from Protector & Gamble and until he actually met Bethune he thought she was a white woman. However, after he was over his shock, he was impressed by your presentation and saw her vision. Her presentation was so great she

In Mary Rowlandson's A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Rowlandson, ethnocentric bias is clearly evident throughout the entire narrative. Ethnocentrism is the judgment of other cultures according to the standards of one's own cultural values or being closed-minded about the lifestyle of another ethnic and/or cultural group. Mary Rowlandson's narrative has many examples supporting the notion that Puritans are ethnocentric in their worldview.

Dorothy E. Smith was born in North England in 1926. Dorothy E. Smith has lived a long life and commonly refers to it as “a long time ago and another world”. According to Smith, she has grown from the young woman to now due to several experiences. Smith has been employed in many different capacities such as a secretary and a clerk. In her Mid-twenties, she worked at a book publishing company. Smith attempted to make a career in the publishing field, but soon realized women were not welcomed or respected.

Bethune did a lot on her own with her management responsibilities, educating people, cleaning schools, and handling money. She explored garbage dumps for items that the school could recycle and use, such as old furniture and pieces of wood. She was capable to secure a staff, several of who worked respectfully for her for many years. To assist pay for enlargement of the school, Bethune and her students baked pies and made ice cream to sell to close construction workers. Additionally, Bethune arranged for her regular classes, of turpentine workers. These are the ways she satisfied her passion to serve as a missionary.