15th of 17th child of parents who worked as slaves to cotton fields doomed;
So Mary too labored as a child upon their own lands to cotton prune. Denied to even look through her first book, she vowed to read N write better than Whites and soon!
In time, in 1904, the Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School for Girls, to whom
Five black girls were the first to pass its opened doors for schooling by Ms. Bethune.
This uplifting school for disadvantaged Blacks into Bethune-Cookman University would for generations continue.
Just as there were no schools for Blacks in the decades before 1902, Thus also were there no hospitals to tend to the sick or injured Black wounds,
Mary McLeod Bethune African American educator, philanthropist, humanitarian, civil rights activist true!Which is why Dr. Bethune did gradually build and develop with great value,
The McLeod Hospital for no where else to run, the falsely impugned By the hateful racist Jim Crow Laws which banned civilization to “the colored” misfortune.
Fortuitously well this would prove to be as millions died worldwide of the 1918 Spanish Flu,
Yet in this Florida medical center against this deathly virus 10s of 1000s would be healed, be immuned.
With each societal success, Mary Jane’s fame and efforts grew and grew.
Till she became a leading executive in The National Youth Administration, NYA, from 1932, Helping over 300,000 Black youths to work with respect towards higher virtues.
Truth told, as the director of the NYA said in 1939: "No one can do what Mrs. Bethune can do.
Thus, POTUS Roosevelt chose her to represent Blacks for the US delegation to transume The U.N. charter signed in 1945, the 26th of June.
“I leave you love. I leave you hope. I leave you a thirst for education” affirmed Mary Bethune.
“I leave you a respect for the use of power. I leave you faith. I leave you racial dignity too.
I leave you a desire to live harmoniously with your fellow men. I leave you finally, a responsibility to our young people to have real jobs with knowledge imbued.
For I am my mother's daughter, and the drums of Africa still beat in my heart attuned. World peace and brotherhood are based on a common understanding of the contributions and cultures of all races and creeds in tune.
Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible must be presumed.
The progress of the world will call for the best that all of us have to give from within to bloom.
Mary McLeod’s Education Mission: Enter to learn; depart to serve ever anew.” Ever Alive with the Spirit of Humanity’s Rescue Mary McLeod Bethune.
