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Mary Mcleod Bethune Critical Analysis
In the book, Mary McLeod Bethune, by Barbara A. Donovan I learned that ¨ After the Civil War, there were still two worlds in the South. Education was not accessible to everyone. Many whites did not think that blacks needed to read or write. But Mary knew that she must learn to read to get a better life.¨ (Donovan 6) I find it rather repulsive that they would segregate schools and make the African Americans education unequal to everyone else. Another fact I found very interesting was ¨When Mary McLeod Bethune was offered the chance to start a school in Florida, she moved her family there. Then in 1904 they moved to Daytona Beach. Here she established her second school. It was the start of her lasting legacy.¨ (Donovan 9) I think that despite
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