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    Imagine that you were a slave of a man or woman. You had to plant, grow, pick, and harvest the things you were growing. The family you work for has a daughter you watch her sit on the desk by the window, holding this thing that you have never picked  up in your lifetime. A pencil,  she writes while her mother teaches her English. You say to yourself "I wish I could do that" Some black kids didn't have the privilege to go to school to learn how to read and write. You pray every nite that someone, somebody will come and make that happen. then in 1875 Mary McLeod Bethune was born.

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    Mary McLeod Bethune was a woman who created schools for black students. Mary was born in 1875 in Mayesville, South Carolina. She was the fisrt born of her family and was not a slave. She was not a slave because of the Emancipation Proclamation which was created in 1863 by Abraham Lincoln. It freed 60,000 slaves and 1/3 of the rest of the slaves were apart of the union army. Mary attended Maysville Presbyterian Mission School, Scotia Seminary and the Moody Bible Institute when she was a child and teenager. After she graduated  from Scotia Seminary in 1894 she began to teach at Maysville Presbyterian in 1895. Two years later she married Albertus Bethune and had their first child a year later.

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In 1904 Mary founded the Daytona Educational and Industrial School for black girls. She served as president of the schools from 1904 to 1942 and then from 1946 to 1947. She was a leader of the black woman's club movement, a president of the National Association of Colored women, and a delegate and advisor to the national conferences on education, child welfare, and home ownership She was awarded the Springarn medal in 1935 and that was her first medal.

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Mary McLeod Bethune spent most of her life making sure that kids got the education they need to be as smart as everyone else who called them stupid. Sadly she died in 1955 at the age of 80. She died a hero, letting black kids learn, read, and write so that they could become bigger and better so that they can not only be a slave but the next hero to the world.

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I believe that Mary B. was the person that let us have black friends, and why Obama is president. She gave the kids with no hope left the chance to be what the really are. A superstar, a professor, A PRESIDENT!!!!!



On Monday we went to the Atlanta history center. We learned about what it would have been like to be a soldier in the civil war. We got to interact with the material that was there, play pretend, and make life or death choices. The man that was our tour guide Marvin was very nice and interacted with us. He made it seem real like when the "bombs" went off. We got to go into this room "a bomb shelter" and we discussed how a bomb shelter might have been, how to make one, and what you did in one. 










                          Sources

• http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112391/

• http://Googleimages.com

• http://lkwdpl.org/wihohio/beth-mar.htm