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Mary Mcleod Bethune Biography
Mary McLeod Bethune was born to enslaved parents, Mary valued education and hard work from an early age. Before she was able to attend school, she worked in the cotton fields with her family and watched her mother work for the whites. One day while Mary was with her mother, she encountered something that changed her life. Bethune picked up a book and looked through it, but was stopped by a child who took it away and told her that she couldn’t read because she was a Negro. Around the age of ten, she was able to formally enter school at the Trinity Presbyterian Mission School in Maysville, South Carolina. Before she was able to decide what to do with her life, she started with educating others, and ultimately her love for teaching would guide
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