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Mary McLeod Bethune

1875 - 1955

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Mary McLeod Bethune (née McLeod; July 10, 1875 – May 18, 1955) was an American educator, philanthropist, humanitarian, womanist, and civil rights activist. Bethune founded the National Council of Negro Women in 1935, and proceeded to establish the Aframerican Women's Journal, which was the flagship journal of the organization. She presided over other African-American women's organizations, including the National Association for Colored Women. Bethune became the first Black woman to lead a federal agency when she was appointed by President Franklin Roosevelt as the Secretary to lead the National Youth Association (NYA). Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mary McLeod Bethune is the 456th most popular social activist (up from 622nd in 2019), the 6,428th most popular biography from United States (up from 11,032nd in 2019) and the 62nd most popular American Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Mary McLeod Bethune ranks 456 out of 840. Before her are Henriette Herz, Lynching of Jesse Washington, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Jason Moore, Phyllis Schlafly, and Bogaletch Gebre. After her are Carlos Fonseca, Iosif Grigulevich, Petro Grigorenko, Giuseppe Pinelli, Gotō Shōjirō, and Eugene V. Debs.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1875, Mary McLeod Bethune ranks 137. Before her are Leopold Andrian, Vladimir Filatov, Federico Laredo Brú, Herbert Jamison, Oleksandr Murashko, and George Larner. After her are Émile Delchambre, Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Jean Cau, Maurice Hemelsoet, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, and Adolfo Díaz. Among people deceased in 1955, Mary McLeod Bethune ranks 119. Before her are Karl Hofer, František Janda-Suk, Vladimir Bonch-Bruyevich, Willi Baumeister, Tom Moore, and Constance Collier. After her are Leonardus Nardus, James Jones, Arthur Shaw, Louis Leon Thurstone, Josephine Diebitsch Peary, and Johan Jarlén.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mary McLeod Bethune ranks 6,429 out of 20,380. Before her are Don McNeill (1918), Al Ernest Garcia (1887), Richard Powers (1957), Chief Joseph (1840), Eva Cassidy (1963), and Horace W. Babcock (1912). After her are Louis Brandeis (1856), Eric Heiden (1958), Donald Byrd (1932), Mark Tobey (1890), Edward Douglass White (1845), and Sarah Yorke Jackson (1803).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Mary McLeod Bethune ranks 62. Before her are Nat Turner (1800), Afeni Shakur (1947), Otto Warmbier (1994), Anna Louise Strong (1885), Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826), and Phyllis Schlafly (1924). After her are Eugene V. Debs (1855), Mary Edwards Walker (1832), William Lloyd Garrison (1805), Pretty Boy Floyd (1904), Tarana Burke (1973), and Sam Childers (1963).

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