| LC control no. | n 85022961 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Bethune, Mary McLeod, 1875-1955 |
| Variant(s) | Bethune, Mary Jane McLeod, 1875-1955 McLeod, Mary, 1875-1955 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1875-07-10 |
| Death date | 1955-05-18 |
| Place of birth | Mayesville (S.C.) |
| Place of death | Daytona Beach (Fla.) |
| Affiliation | Scotia Women's College Daytona Normal and Industrial Institute for Girls (Daytona Beach, Fla.) National Urban League Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, inc. National Council of Negro Women |
| Profession or occupation | Women college presidents Public officers Civil rights workers College presidents |
| Found in | McKissack, P. Mary McLeod Bethune, 1985. LC data base, 5/15/85 (hdg.: Bethune, Mary Jane McLeod, 1875-1955; usage: Mary Mcleod Bethune) NUCMC data from Fisk Univ. for Mary McLeod Bethune papers, 1928-1943 Biography Resource Center, Dec. 5, 2003 (Bethune, Mary (McLeod) (July 10, 1875-May 18, 1955), college president and government official, was born in Mayesville, S.C., one of seventeen children of Samuel McLeod and Patsy McIntosh McLeod; May 1898 she married Albertus L. Bethune, a schoolteacher, who later left her and died October 22, 1918 [in Daytona Beach, Fla.]) African American National Biography, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014: (Bethune, Mary McLeod; social reformer, women's rights advocate, civil rights activist, organization founder / official; born 10 July 1875 near Mayesville, South Carolina, United States; graduated from Scotia Seminary (later Barber-Scotia College) in Concord, North Carolina (1894); founded the Daytona Normal and Industrial Institute for Training Negro Girls in Daytona, Florida (1904); vice president of the National Urban League (1920); president of the National Association of Colored Women (1924-1928); founder and president of the National Council of Negro Women (1935); president of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, later known as the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History (1936-1950); director in charge of Negro Affairs in the New Deal National Youth Administration (NYA); died 18 May 1955 in Daytona Beach, Florida, United States) |
| Associated language | eng |
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