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Mary McLeod Bethune

By Deborah Creighton Skinner | Published June 23, 2010 | Full size is 510 × 351 pixels

Educator, author, and civil rights leader Mary McLeod Bethune founded a school for black students (now Bethune-Cookman College) and served as an adviser to multiple presidents including Franklin D. Roosevelt. (Date issued: March 5, 1985)

Educator, author, and civil rights leader Mary McLeod Bethune founded a school for black students…