1. Mary McLeod Bethune
Study Guide

2. Early Life Mary McLeod Bethune
__ __ was born in South Carolina in 1875, after slavery had ended.
Mary McLeod Bethune

3. Early Life
Mary McLeod Bethune first showed the character trait ______ when she was a little girl learning how to read.
diligence

4. Early Life
She enjoyed arguing her opinions, so she participated on the _______ team at Scotia Seminary.
debate

5. Early Career
Mary McLeod Bethune became a ______. She was greatly influence by her friend and ______, Lucy Craft Laney.
teacher

6. Lucy Craft Laney Early Career
___ ___ ___ taught Mary McLeod Bethune how to run a school.
Lucy Craft Laney

7. school Daytona Beach Early Career
Bethune started her own ____ in ____ ____, Florida in the year 1904 with only $1.50.
school
Daytona Beach

8. Character
Mary McLeod Bethune also showed ____ when she asked for donations and sold pies to the community to raise money for her new school.
diligence

9. Early Career
In order to start a school it takes many types of _____ resources, like the school building, books, desks, and other furniture needed to supply the school.
capital

10. Early Career
Bethune’s school grew over the years. In 1931, her school became a ____. It became Bethune-Cookman University in 2007 and continues to educate students today.
college

11. together Partnerships
Mary McLeod Bethune started clubs and organizations to give voice and power to African American Women. She knew that when people worked ____ they had great power.
together

12. Franklin D. Roosevelt Partnerships
____ __. _____ was the president during the Great Depression, a hard time when many were without jobs or money.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

13. Partnerships
Roosevelt started many programs like the National Youth Administration (NYA). This program created ____for teenagers and young adults.
jobs

14. Partnerships Eleanor Roosevelt justice
Roosevelt’s wife, ____ ____, had met Bethune and knew that she cared about ____ and African American young people. She recommended that her husband, Franklin Roosevelt, hire her to work for the NYA.
Eleanor Roosevelt
justice

15. African Americans Partnerships
Eleanor Roosevelt and Mary McLeod Bethune were good friends. Bethune taught Roosevelt a lot about the problems faced by ___ ___.
African Americans

16. Partnerships
Mary McLeod Bethune advised three different Presidents and served on many committees because she wanted to help the youth of America. Ms. Bethune greatly ________ the authority of Presidents.
respected

17. Honors
Bethune was honored for her hard work for _______ and justice. She was the first woman AND the first African American woman to be honored with a ____ in a public park in Washington, D.C.
freedom
statue

18. Honors
Bethune’s lifetime of hard work for young people was honored all over the world. Two countries that recognized her work were ____ and ____.
Haiti
Liberia

19. American Hero: Video
Click on her picture below to watch a short biographical video of Mary McLeod Bethune.

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