Mary McLeod Bethune - wikipedia Mary McLeod Bethune Mary McLeod Bethune Mary Jane McLeod Bethune, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, April 6, 1949 Mary Jane McLeod ( 1875 - 07 - 10 ) July 10, 1875 Mayesville, South Carolina, U.S. May 18, 1955 ( 1955 - 05 - 18 ) ( aged 79 ) Daytona Beach, Florida, U.S. Occupation Educator, Author, and African American civil rights leader Spouse ( s ) Albertus Bethune, m. 1898, died 1918 Children Mary Jane McLeod Bethune ( born Mary Jane McLeod ; July 10, 1875 -- May 18, 1955 ) was an American educator, stateswoman, philanthropist, humanitarian and civil rights activist best known for starting a private school for African - American students in Daytona Beach, Florida. She attracted donations of time and money, and developed the academic school as a college. It later continued to develop as Bethune - Cookman University. She also was appointed as a national adviser to president Franklin D. Roosevelt as part of what was known as his Black Cabinet. She was known as `` The First Lady of The Struggle '' because of her commitment to gain better lives for African Americans. Born in Mayesville, South Carolina, to parents who had been slaves, she started working in fields with her family at age five. She took an early interest in becoming educated ; with the help of benefactors, Bethune attended college hoping to become a missionary in Africa. She started a school for African - American girls in Daytona Beach, Florida. It later merged with a private institute for African - American boys, and was known as the Bethune - Cookman School. Bethune maintained high standards and promoted the school with tourists and donors, to demonstrate what educated African Americans could do. She was president of the college from 1923 to 1942, and 1946 to 1947. She was one of the few women in the world to serve as a college president at that time. Bethune was also active in women 's clubs, which were strong civic organizations supporting welfare and other needs, and became a national leader. After working on the presidential campaign for Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932, she was invited as a member of his Black Cabinet. She advised him on concerns of black people and helped share Roosevelt 's message and achievements with blacks, who had historically been Republican voters since the Civil War. At the time, blacks had been largely disenfranchised in the South since the turn of the century, so she was speaking to black voters across the North. Upon her death, columnist Louis E. Martin said, `` She gave out faith and hope as if they were pills and she some sort of doctor. '' Honors include designation of her home in Daytona Beach as a National Historic Landmark, her house in Washington, D.C. as a National Historic Site, and the installation of a memorial sculpture of her in Lincoln Park in Washington, D.C. The Legislature of Florida is expected to designate her in 2018 as the subject of one of Florida 's two statues in the National Statuary Hall Collection. Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Marriage and family 3 Teaching career 3.1 Foundations with Lucy Craft Laney 3.2 School in Daytona 4 Career as a public leader 4.1 National Association of Colored Women 4.2 Southeastern Association of Colored Women 's Clubs 4.3 National Council of Negro Women 4.4 National Youth Administration 4.5 Black Cabinet 4.6 Civil rights 5 Death and accolades 6 Personal life 7 Legacy and honors 8 See also 9 References 10 External links Early life and education The cabin in Mayesville, South Carolina where Mary McLeod was born McLeod was born in 1875 in a small log cabin near Mayesville, South Carolina, on a rice and cotton farm in Sumter County. She was the fifteenth of seventeen children born to Sam and Patsy ( McIntosh ) McLeod, both former slaves. Most of her siblings had been born into slavery. Her mother worked for her former master, and her father farmed cotton near a large house they called `` The Homestead. '' Her parents wanted to be independent so they had sacrificed to buy a farm for the family. As a child, Mary would accompany her mother to deliver `` white people 's '' wash. Allowed to go into the white children 's nursery, Mary became fascinated with their toys. One day she picked up a book and as she opened it, a white child took it away from her, saying she did n't know how to read. Mary decided then that the only difference between white and colored people was the ability to read and write. She was inspired to learn. McLeod attended Mayesville 's one - room black schoolhouse, Trinity Mission School, which was run by the Presbyterian Board of Missions of Freedmen. She was the only child in her family to attend school, so each day, she taught her family what she had learned. To get to and from school, Mary walked five miles each day. Her teacher Emma Jane Wilson became a significant mentor in her life. Wilson had attended Scotia Seminary ( now Barber - Scotia College ). She helped McLeod attend the same school on a scholarship, which she did from 1888 -- 1893. The following year, she attended Dwight L. Moody 's Institute for Home and Foreign Missions in Chicago ( now the Moody Bible Institute ), hoping to become a missionary in Africa. Told that black missionaries were not needed, she planned to teach, as education was a prime goal among African Americans. Marriage and family McLeod married Albertus Bethune in 1898, and they lived for a year in Savannah, Georgia, where she did social work. They had a son, named Albert. Coyden Harold Uggams, a visiting Presbyterian minister, persuaded the couple to relocate to Palatka, Florida, to run a mission school. The Bethunes moved in 1899 ; Mary ran the mission school and began an outreach to prisoners. Albertus left the family in 1907 ; he never got a divorce but relocated to South Carolina. He died in 1918 from tuberculosis. Teaching career Foundations with Lucy Craft Laney Bethune worked as a teacher briefly at her former elementary school in Sumter County. In 1896, she began teaching at Haines Normal and Industrial Institute in Augusta, Georgia, which was part of a Presbyterian mission organized by northern congregations. It was founded and run by Lucy Craft Laney. As the daughter of former slaves, Laney ran her school with a Christian missionary zeal, emphasizing character and practical education for girls. She also accepted the boys who showed up eager to learn. Laney 's mission was to imbue Christian moral education in her students to arm them for their life challenges. Of her year at Laney 's school, Bethune said, `` I was so impressed with her fearlessness, her amazing touch in every respect, an energy that seemed inexhaustible and her mighty power to command respect and admiration from her students and all who knew her. She handled her domain with the art of a master. '' Bethune adopted many of Laney 's educational philosophies, including her emphasis on educating girls and women to improve the conditions of black people : `` I believe that the greatest hope for the development of my race lies in training our women thoroughly and practically. '' ( This is a strategy being followed by organizers in numerous developing countries. Educating women raises the lives of families as a whole. ) After one year at Haines, Bethune was transferred by the Presbyterian mission to the Kindell Institute in Sumter, South Carolina, where she had met her current husband. School in Daytona Mary McLeod Bethune with girls from the Literary and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls in Daytona, c. 1905. After her marriage and move to Florida, Bethune became determined to start a school for girls. Bethune moved from Palatka to Daytona because it had more economic opportunity ; it had become a popular tourist destination and businesses were thriving. In October 1904, she rented a small house for $11.00 per month. She made benches and desks from discarded crates, and acquired other items through charity. Bethune used $1.50 to start the Literary and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls. She initially had six students -- five girls aged six to twelve, and her son Albert. The school bordered Daytona 's dump. Bethune, parents of students, and church members raised money by making sweet potato pies, ice cream, and fried fish, and selling them to crews at the dump. In the early days, the students made ink for pens from elderberry juice, and pencils from burned wood ; they asked local businesses for furniture. Bethune wrote later, `` I considered cash money as the smallest part of my resources. I had faith in a loving God, faith in myself, and a desire to serve. '' The school received donations of money, equipment, and labor from local black churches. Within a year, Bethune was teaching more than 30 girls at the school. Bethune also courted wealthy white organizations, such as the ladies ' Palmetto Club. She invited influential white men to sit on her school board of trustees, gaining participation by James Gamble ( of Procter & Gamble ) and Thomas H. White ( of White Sewing Machines ). When Booker T. Washington of Tuskegee Institute visited in 1912, he advised her of the importance of gaining support by white benefactors for funding. Bethune had met with Washington in 1896 and was impressed by his clout with his donors. The rigorous curriculum had the girls rise at 5 : 30 a.m. for Bible study. The classes in home economics and industrial skills such as dressmaking, millinery, cooking, and other crafts emphasized a life of self - sufficiency for them as women. Students ' days ended at 9 pm. Soon Bethune added science and business courses, then high school - level courses of math, English, and foreign languages. Bethune was always seeking donations to keep her school operating ; as she traveled, she was fundraising. A donation of $62,000 by John D. Rockefeller helped, as did her friendship with Franklin D. Roosevelt and his wife, beginning in the 1930s, who gave her entree to a progressive network. In 1931, the Methodist Church helped the merger of her school with the boys ' Cookman Institute, forming the Bethune - Cookman College, a coeducational junior college. Bethune became president. Through the Great Depression, Bethune - Cookman School continued to operate, and met the educational standards of the State of Florida. From 1936 to 1942, Bethune had to cut back her time as president because of her duties in Washington, DC. Funding declined during this period of her absence. But, by 1941 the college had developed a four - year curriculum and achieved full college status. By 1942 Bethune gave up the presidency, as her health was being adversely affected by her many responsibilities. Career as a public leader National Association of Colored women In 1896, the National Association of Colored Women was formed to promote the needs of black women. Bethune served as the Florida chapter president of the NACW from 1917 to 1925. She worked to register black voters, which was resisted by white society and had been made almost impossible by a variety of obstacles in Florida law and practices controlled by white administrators. She was threatened by members of the resurgent Ku Klux Klan in those years. Bethune also served as the president of the Southeastern Federation of Colored Women 's Clubs from 1920 to 1925, which worked to improve opportunities for black women. She was elected as national president of the NACW in 1924. While the organization struggled to raise funds for regular operations, Bethune envisioned its acquiring a headquarters and hiring a professional executive secretary ; she implemented this when NACW bought a property at 1318 Vermont Avenue in Washington, DC. She led it to be the first black - controlled organization with headquarters in the capital. Gaining a national reputation, in 1928 Bethune was invited to attend the Child Welfare Conference called by Republican President Calvin Coolidge. In 1930 President Herbert Hoover appointed her to the White House Conference on Child Health. Southeastern Association of Colored women 's Clubs The Southeastern Federation of Colored Women 's Clubs ( eventually renamed as the Southeastern Association of Colored Women 's Clubs ) elected Bethune as president after its first conference in 1920 at the Tuskegee Institute. They intended to reach out to Southern Women ( specifically white women ) for support and unity in gaining rights for black women. The women met in Memphis, Tennessee to discuss interracial problems. In many respects, all of the women agreed about what needed to be changed, until they came to the topic of suffrage. The white women at the conference tried to strike down a resolution on black suffrage. The SACWC responded by issuing a pamphlet entitled Southern Negro Women and Race Co-Operation ; it delineated their demands regarding conditions in domestic service, child welfare, conditions of travel, education, lynching, the public press, and voting rights. The group went on to help register black women to vote after they were granted suffrage a few months later after passage of the constitutional amendment. Within the state, however, and in other southern states, black men and women were largely disenfranchised by discriminatory application of literacy and comprehension tests, as well as requirements to pay poll taxes, lengthy residency requirements, and the need to keep and display records. National Council of Negro women In 1935 Bethune founded the National Council of Negro Women in New York City, bringing together representatives of 28 different organizations to work to improve the lives of black women and their communities. Bethune said of the council : `` It is our pledge to make a lasting contribution to all that is finest and best in America, to cherish and enrich her heritage of freedom and progress by working for the integration of all her people regardless of race, creed, or national origin, into her spiritual, social, cultural, civic, and economic life, and thus aid her to achieve the glorious destiny of a true and unfettered democracy. '' In 1938, the NCNW hosted the White House Conference on Negro Women and Children, demonstrating the importance of black women in democratic roles. During World War II, the NCNW gained approval for black women to be commissioned as officers in the Women 's Army Corps. Bethune also served as a political appointee and the Special Assistant to the Secretary of War during the war. In the 1990s, the headquarters for the National Council for Negro Women moved to Pennsylvania Avenue, centrally located between the White House and the U.S. Capitol. The former headquarters, where Bethune also lived at one time, has been designated as a National Historic Site. National Youth Administration The National Youth Administration ( NYA ) was a federal agency created under Roosevelt 's Works Progress Administration ( WPA ). It provided programs specifically to promote relief and employment for young people. It focused on unemployed citizens aged sixteen to twenty - five years who were not in school. Bethune lobbied the organization so aggressively and effectively for minority involvement that she earned a full - time staff position in 1936 as an assistant. Within two years, Bethune was appointed to position of Director of the Division of Negro Affairs, and as such, became the first African - American female division head. She managed NYA funds to help black students through school - based programs. She was the only black agent of the NYA who was a financial manager. She ensured black colleges participation in the Civilian Pilot Training Program, which graduated some of the first black pilots. The director of the NYA said in 1939 : `` No one can do what Mrs. Bethune can do. '' Bethune 's determination helped national officials recognize the need to improve employment for black youth. The NYA 's final report, issued in 1943 stated, `` more than 300,000 black young men and women were given employment and work training on NYA projects. These projects opened to these youth, training opportunities and enabled the majority of them to qualify for jobs heretofore closed to them. '' Within the administration, Bethune advocated for the appointment of black NYA officials to positions of political power. Bethune 's administrative assistants served as liaisons between the National Division of Negro Affairs and the NYA agencies on the state and local levels. The high number of administrative assistants composed a work force commanded by Bethune. They helped gain better job and salary opportunities for blacks across the country. During her tenure, Bethune also pushed federal officials to approve a program of consumer education for blacks, and a foundation for black crippled children. She planned for studies for black workers ' education councils. National officials did not support these due to inadequate funding and fear of duplicating the work of private non-governmental agencies. The NYA was terminated in 1943. Black Cabinet Mary McLeod Bethune ( left ) and Eleanor Roosevelt ( center ), 1943 Bethune became a close and loyal friend of Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt. At the Southern Conference on Human Welfare in 1938, held in Birmingham, Alabama, Eleanor Roosevelt requested a seat next to Bethune despite state segregation laws. Roosevelt frequently referred to Bethune as `` her closest friend in her age group. '' Bethune told black voters about the work being done on their behalf by the Roosevelt Administration, and made their concerns known to the Roosevelts. She had unprecedented access to the White House through her relationship with the First Lady. She used her access to form a coalition of leaders from black organizations called the Federal Council of Negro Affairs, but which came to be known as the Black Cabinet. It served as an advisory board to the Roosevelt administration on issues facing black people in America. It was composed of numerous talented blacks, mostly men, who had been appointed to positions in federal agencies. This was the first collective of black people working in higher positions in government. It suggested to voters that the Roosevelt administration cared about black concerns. The group gathered in Bethune 's office or apartment and met informally, rarely keeping minutes. Although as advisers they did not directly create public policy, they were a respected leadership among black voters ; they influenced political appointments and disbursement of funds to organizations that would benefit black people. Civil rights In 1931 the Methodist Church supported merging of the Daytona Normal and Industrial School and the Cookman College for Men into Bethune - Cookman College, established first as a junior college. Bethune became a member of the church but it was segregated in the South. Essentially two organizations operated in the Methodist denomination. Bethune was prominent in the primarily black Florida Conference. While she worked to integrate the mostly white Methodist Episcopal Church, South, she protested its initial plans for integration because they proposed separate jurisdictions based on race. Bethune worked to educate both whites and blacks about the accomplishments and needs of black people, writing in 1938, If our people are to fight their way up out of bondage we must arm them with the sword and the shield and buckler of pride -- belief in themselves and their possibilities, based upon a sure knowledge of the achievements of the past. A year later she wrote, Not only the Negro child but children of all races should read and know of the achievements, accomplishments and deeds of the Negro. World peace and brotherhood are based on a common understanding of the contributions and cultures of all races and creeds. On Sundays she opened her school to tourists in Daytona Beach, showing off her students ' accomplishments, hosting national speakers on black issues, and taking donations. She ensured that these Community Meetings were integrated. A black teenager in Daytona at the time later recalled : `` Many tourists attended, sitting wherever there were empty seats. There was no special section for white people. '' When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education ( 1954 ) that segregation of public schools was unconstitutional, Bethune defended the decision by writing in the Chicago Defender that year : There can be no divided democracy, no class government, no half - free county, under the constitution. Therefore, there can be no discrimination, no segregation, no separation of some citizens from the rights which belong to all... We are on our way. But these are frontiers which we must conquer... We must gain full equality in education... in the franchise... in economic opportunity, and full equality in the abundance of life. e Bethune organized the first officer candidate schools for black women. She lobbied federal officials, including Roosevelt, on behalf of African - American women who wanted to join the military. Death and accolades On May 18, 1955, Bethune died of a heart attack. Her death was followed by editorial tributes in African - American newspapers across the United States. The Oklahoma City Black Dispatch stated she was, `` Exhibit No. 1 for all who have faith in America and the democratic process. '' The Atlanta Daily World said her life was, `` One of the most dramatic careers ever enacted at any time upon the stage of human activity. '' And the Pittsburgh Courier wrote, `` In any race or nation she would have been an outstanding personality and made a noteworthy contribution because her chief attribute was her indomitable soul. '' The mainstream press praised her as well. Christian Century suggested, `` the story of her life should be taught to every school child for generations to come. '' The New York Times noted she was, `` one of the most potent factors in the growth of interracial goodwill in America. '' The Washington Post said : `` So great were her dynamism and force that it was almost impossible to resist her... Not only her own people, but all America has been enriched and ennobled by her courageous, ebullient spirit. '' Her hometown newspaper, the Daytona Beach Evening News printed, `` To some she seemed unreal, something that could not be... What right had she to greatness ?... The lesson of Mrs. Bethune 's life is that genius knows no racial barriers. '' Mary Bethune bust by Selma Burke Personal life Painting of Bethune by Betsy Graves Reyneau Bethune was described as `` ebony '' in complexion. She carried a cane, not for support but for effect. She said it gave her `` swank ''. She was a teetotaler and preached temperance for African Americans, taking opportunities to chastise drunken blacks she encountered in public. Bethune said more than once that the school and the students in Daytona were her first family, and that her son and extended family came second. Her students often referred to her as `` Mama Bethune. '' She was noted for achieving her goals. Dr. Robert Weaver, who also served in Roosevelt 's Black Cabinet, said of her, `` She had the most marvelous gift of effecting feminine helplessness in order to attain her aims with masculine ruthlessness. '' When a white Daytona resident threatened Bethune 's students with a rifle, Bethune worked to make an ally of him. The director of the McLeod Hospital recalled, `` Mrs. Bethune treated him with courtesy and developed such goodwill in him that we found him protecting the children and going so far as to say, ' If anybody bothers old Mary, I will protect her with my life. ' '' Self - sufficiency was a high priority throughout her life. Bethune invested in several businesses, including the Pittsburgh Courier, a black newspaper, and several life insurance companies. She founded Central Life Insurance of Florida. She eventually retired in Florida. Due to state segregation, blacks were not allowed to visit the beach. Bethune and several other business owners invested in Paradise Beach : they purchased a 2 - mile ( 3.2 km ) stretch of beach and the surrounding properties, selling these to black families. They did allow white families to visit the waterfront. Paradise Beach was later renamed as Bethune - Volusia Beach in her honor. She also was a one - fourth owner of the Welricha Motel in Daytona. Legacy and honors The Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site in Washington, D.C. In 1930, journalist Ida Tarbell included Bethune as number 10 on her list of America 's greatest women. Bethune was awarded the Spingarn Medal in 1935 by the NAACP. In the 1940s, Bethune used her influence and friendship with Eleanor Roosevelt to secure luxury travel buses for Eddie Durham 's All - Star Girls Orchestra, an African - American all women 's swing band. Bethune was the only black woman present at the founding of the United Nations in San Francisco in 1945, representing the NAACP with W.E.B. Du Bois and Walter White. In 1949 she became the first woman to receive the National Order of Honour and Merit, Haiti 's highest award. She served as the US emissary to the induction of President William V.S. Tubman of Liberia in 1949. She also served as an adviser to five of the Presidents of the United States. Calvin Coolidge and Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed her to several government positions, which included : Special Advisor in Minority Affairs, director of the Division of Negro Affairs of the National Youth Administration, and chair of Federal Council of Negro Affairs. Among her honors, she was an assistant director of the Women 's Army Corps. She was also an honorary member of Delta Sigma Theta sorority. In 1973, Bethune was inducted into the National Women 's Hall of Fame. On July 10, 1974, the anniversary of her 99th birthday, the Mary McLeod Bethune Memorial, by artist Robert Berks, was erected in her honor in Lincoln Park ( Washington, D.C. ) It was the first monument honoring an African American or a woman to be installed in a public park in the District of Columbia. At least 18,000 people attended the unveiling ceremony ( although one estimate claims that approximately 250,000 people attended ) including Shirley Chisholm, the first African - American woman elected to Congress. The funds for the monument were raised by the National Council of Negro Women. The inscription on the pedestal reads `` let her works praise her, '' while the side is engraved with a passage from her `` Last Will and Testament '' : I leave you love. I leave you hope. I leave you the challenge of developing confidence in one another. I leave you a thirst for education. I leave you a respect for the use of power. I leave you faith. I leave you racial dignity. I leave you a desire to live harmoniously with your fellow men. I leave you a responsibility to our young people. In 1985 the US Postal Service issued a stamp in Bethune 's honor. In 1989 Ebony Magazine listed her as one of `` 50 Most Important Figures in Black US History. '' In 1999, Ebony Magazine included her as one of the `` 100 Most Fascinating Black Women of the 20th century. '' In 1991, the International Astronomical Union named a crater on planet Venus in her honor. In 1994, the National Park Service acquired Bethune 's last residence, the NACW Council House at 1318 Vermont Avenue. The former headquarters was designated as the Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site. Schools have been named in her honor in Los Angeles, Chicago, San Diego, Dallas, Palm Beach, Florida, Moreno Valley, California, Minneapolis, Ft. Lauderdale, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Folkston and College Park, Georgia, New Orleans, Rochester, New York, Cleveland, South Boston, Virginia, Jacksonville, Florida, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In 2002, scholar Molefi Kete Asante listed Mary McLeod Bethune on his list of 100 Greatest African Americans. In 2004, Bethune - Cookman University celebrated its hundredth anniversary from its founding as a primary school. The former 2nd Avenue on one side of the university was renamed Mary Mcleod Bethune Boulevard. The university 's website says, `` the vision of the founder remains in full view over one - hundred years later. The institution prevails in order that others might improve their heads, hearts, and hands. '' The university 's vice president recalled her legacy : `` During Mrs. Bethune 's time, this was the only place in the city of Daytona Beach where Whites and Blacks could sit in the same room and enjoy what she called ' gems from students ' -- their recitations and songs. 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The Mary McLeod Bethune Council House : African American Women Unite for Change, a National Park Service Teaching with Historic Places ( TwHP ) lesson plan Biography and Bethune 's impact on Volusia County ( Daytona Beach ), Florida Mary McLeod Bethune with a Line of Girls from the School from the World Digital Library `` A Passion for Social Equality : Mary McLeod Bethune 's Race Woman Leadership and the New Deal, '' a political biography Mary McLeod Bethune, the NCNW, and the Prewar Push for Equal Opportunity in Defense Projects Thomas, Rhondda R. & Ashton, Susanna, eds. ( 2014 ). The South Carolina Roots of African American Thought. Columbia : University of South Carolina Press. `` Mary Jane McLeod Bethune ( 1875 -- 1955 ), '' p. 163 -- 167. Uniforms at A History of Central Florida Podcast Mary McLeod Bethune Biography, Biography.com, February 25, 2015 Encyclopedia of Race and Racism Michals, Debra. `` Mary McLeod Bethune ''. National Women 's History Museum. 2015. Inductees to the National Women 's Hall of Fame 1970 -- 1979 1973 Jane Addams Marian Anderson Susan B. Anthony Clara Barton Mary McLeod Bethune Elizabeth Blackwell Pearl S. Buck Rachel Carson Mary Cassatt Emily Dickinson Amelia Earhart Alice Hamilton Helen Hayes Helen Keller Eleanor Roosevelt Florence Sabin Margaret Chase Smith Elizabeth Cady Stanton Helen Brooke Taussig Harriet Tubman 1976 Abigail Adams Margaret Mead Mildred `` Babe '' Didrikson Zaharias 1979 Dorothea Dix Juliette Gordon Low Alice Paul Elizabeth Bayley Seton 1980 -- 1989 1981 Margaret Sanger Sojourner Truth 1982 Carrie Chapman Catt Frances Perkins Belva Lockwood Lucretia Mott 1984 Mary `` Mother '' Harris Jones Bessie Smith 1986 Barbara McClintock Lucy Stone Harriet Beecher Stowe Gwendolyn Brooks Willa Cather Sally Ride Ida B. Wells - Barnett 1990 -- 1999 Margaret Bourke - White Barbara Jordan Billie Jean King Florence B. Seibert 1991 Gertrude Belle Elion 1993 Ethel Percy Andrus Antoinette Blackwell Emily Blackwell Shirley Chisholm Jacqueline Cochran Ruth Colvin Marian Wright Edelman Alice Evans Betty Friedan Ella Grasso Martha Wright Griffiths Fannie Lou Hamer Dorothy Height Dolores Huerta Mary Jacobi Mae Jemison Mary Lyon Mary Mahoney Wilma Mankiller Constance Baker Motley Georgia O'Keeffe Annie Oakley Rosa Parks Esther Peterson Jeannette Rankin Ellen Swallow Richards Elaine Roulet Katherine Siva Saubel Gloria Steinem Helen Stephens Lillian Wald Madam C.J. Walker Faye Wattleton Rosalyn S. Yalow Gloria Yerkovich 1994 Bella Abzug Ella Baker Myra Bradwell Annie Jump Cannon Jane Cunningham Croly Catherine East Geraldine Ferraro Charlotte Perkins Gilman Grace Hopper Helen LaKelly Hunt Zora Neale Hurston Anne Hutchinson Frances Wisebart Jacobs Susette La Flesche Louise McManus Maria Mitchell Antonia Novello Linda Richards Wilma Rudolph Betty Bone Schiess Muriel Siebert Nettie Stevens Oprah Winfrey Sarah Winnemucca Fanny Wright 1995 Virginia Apgar Ann Bancroft Amelia Bloomer Mary Breckinridge Eileen Collins Elizabeth Hanford Dole Anne Dallas Dudley Mary Baker Eddy Ella Fitzgerald Margaret Fuller Matilda Joslyn Gage Lillian Moller Gilbreth Nannerl O. Keohane Maggie Kuhn Sandra Day O'Connor Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin Pat Schroeder Hannah Greenebaum Solomon Louisa May Alcott Charlotte Anne Bunch Frances Xavier Cabrini Mary A. Hallaren Oveta Culp Hobby Wilhelmina Cole Holladay Anne Morrow Lindbergh Maria Goeppert - Mayer Ernestine Louise Potowski Rose Maria Tallchief Edith Wharton 1998 Madeleine Albright Maya Angelou Nellie Bly Lydia Moss Bradley Mary Steichen Calderone Mary Ann Shadd Cary Joan Ganz Cooney Gerty Cori Sarah Grimké Julia Ward Howe Shirley Ann Jackson Shannon Lucid Katharine Dexter McCormick Rozanne L. Ridgway Edith Nourse Rogers Felice Schwartz Eunice Kennedy Shriver Beverly Sills Florence Wald Angelina Grimké Weld Chien - Shiung Wu 2000 -- 2009 2000 Faye Glenn Abdellah Emma Smith DeVoe Marjory Stoneman Douglas Mary Dyer Sylvia A. Earle Crystal Eastman Jeanne Holm Leontine T. Kelly Frances Oldham Kelsey Kate Mullany Janet Reno Anna Howard Shaw Sophia Smith Ida Tarbell Wilma L. Vaught Mary Edwards Walker Annie Dodge Wauneka Eudora Welty Frances E. Willard 2001 Dorothy H. Andersen Lucille Ball Rosalynn Carter Lydia Maria Child Bessie Coleman Dorothy Day Marian de Forest Althea Gibson Beatrice A. Hicks Barbara Holdridge Harriet Williams Russell Strong Emily Howell Warner Victoria Woodhull 2002 Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis Ruth Bader Ginsburg Katharine Graham Bertha Holt Mary Engle Pennington Mercy Otis Warren 2003 Linda G. Alvarado Donna de Varona Gertrude Ederle Martha Matilda Harper Patricia Roberts Harris Stephanie L. Kwolek Dorothea Lange Mildred Robbins Leet Patsy Takemoto Mink Sacagawea Anne Sullivan Sheila E. Widnall 2005 Florence Ellinwood Allen Ruth Fulton Benedict Betty Bumpers Hillary Clinton Rita Rossi Colwell Mother Marianne Cope Maya Y. Lin Patricia A. Locke Blanche Stuart Scott Mary Burnett Talbert 2007 Eleanor K. Baum Julia Child Martha Coffin Pelham Wright Swanee Hunt Winona LaDuke Elisabeth Kübler - Ross Judith L. Pipher Catherine Filene Shouse Henrietta Szold 2009 Louise Bourgeois Mildred Cohn Karen DeCrow Susan Kelly - Dreiss Allie B. Latimer Emma Lazarus Ruth Patrick Rebecca Talbot Perkins Susan Solomon Kate Stoneman 2010 -- 2019 2011 St. Katharine Drexel Dorothy Harrison Eustis Loretta C. Ford Abby Kelley Foster Helen Murray Free Billie Holiday Coretta Scott King Lilly Ledbetter Barbara A. Mikulski Donna E. Shalala Kathrine Switzer 2013 Betty Ford Ina May Gaskin Julie Krone Kate Millett Nancy Pelosi Mary Joseph Rogers Bernice Sandler Anna Schwartz Emma Willard 2015 Tenley Albright Nancy Brinker Martha Graham Marcia Greenberger Barbara Iglewski Jean Kilbourne Carlotta Walls LaNier Philippa Marrack Mary Harriman Rumsey Eleanor Smeal 2017 Matilda Cuomo Temple Grandin Lorraine Hansberry Victoria Jackson Sherry Lansing Clare Boothe Luce Aimee Mullins Carol Mutter Janet Rowley Alice Waters Florida Women 's Hall of Fame administered by the Florida Commission on the Status of Women 1980 -- 1989 1982 Mary McLeod Bethune Helene S. Coleman Elaine Gordon Wilhelmina Celeste Goehring Harvey Paula Mae Milton Barbara Jo Palmer 1984 Roxcy O'Neal Bolton Barbara Landstreet Frye Lena B. Smithers Hughes Zora Neale Hurston Sybil Collins Mobley Helen Muir Gladys Pumariega Soler Julia DeForest Sturtevant Tuttle 1986 Annie Ackerman Rosemary Barkett Gwendolyn Sawyer Cherry Dorothy Dodd Marjory Stoneman Douglas Elsie Jones Hare Elizabeth McCullough Johnson Frances Bartlett Kinne Arva Moore Parks McCabe Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Florence Barbara Seibert Marilyn K. Smith Eartha M.M. White 1990 -- 1999 Jacqueline Cochran Carrie P. Meek Ruth Bryan Owen 1993 Betty Skelton Frankman Erde Paulina Pedroso Janet Reno 1994 Nikki Beare Betty Mae Jumper Gladys Nichols Milton 1995 Evelyn Stocking Crosslin JoAnn Hardin Morgan Sarah Brooks Pryor Marjorie Harris Carr Betty Castor Ivy Julia Cromartie Stranahan Alicia Baro Carita Doggett Corse M. Athalie Range 1998 Helen Gordon Davis Mattie Belle Davis Christine Fulwylie - Bankston 1999 Althea Gibson Sister Jeanne O'Laughlin Dessie Smith Prescott 2000 -- 2009 2000 Chris Evert Paula Fickes Hawkins Marianne Mathewson - Chapman 2001 Jessie Ball duPont Lenore Carrero Nesbitt Lynda Keever 2002 Victoria Joyce Ely Toni Jennings Frances Langford Stuart 2003 Sarah Ann Blocker Gloria Estefan Mary R. Grizzle 2004 / 2005 Shirley D. Coletti Judith Kersey Marion Hammer 2005 / 2006 Caridad Asensio Tillie Fowler Lucy W. Morgan 2006 / 2007 Maryly VanLeer Peck Peggy A. Quince 2007 / 2008 Barbara J. Pariente Pallavi Patel Ileana Ros - Lehtinen 2008 / 2009 Louise H. Cortelis Gwen Margolis Betty Schlesinger Sembler 2009 / 2010 Eugenie Clark Claudine Dianne Ryce Dara Grace Torres 2010 -- 2019 2010 / 2011 Mary Brennan Karl Anna I. Rodriguez 2011 / 2012 Ruth H. Alexander Elizabeth `` Budd '' Bell Vicki Bryant Burke 2012 / 2013 Clara C. Frye Aleene Pridgen Kidd MacKenzie Lillie Pierce Voss 2013 / 2014 Susan Benton Louise Jones Gopher Dottie Berger MacKinnon 2014 / 2015 Mary Lee Farrior Evelyn Cahn Keiser Charlotte Edwards Maguire 2016 Carol Jenkins Barnett Helen Aguirre Ferré Elmira Louise Leto 2017 Mary Lou Baker Kathleen Scott Robertson Katherine Fernandez Rundle Civil rights movement Notable events ( timeline ) Prior to 1954 Lynching in the United States Murder of Harry and Harriette Moore 1954 -- 1959 Brown v. Board of Education Bolling v. Sharpe Briggs v. Elliott Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County Gebhart v. Belton White America, Inc. Sarah Keys v. Carolina Coach Company Emmett Till Montgomery bus boycott Browder v. Gayle Tallahassee bus boycott Mansfield school desegregation 1957 Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom `` Give Us the Ballot '' Royal Ice Cream sit - in Little Rock Nine National Guard blockade Civil Rights Act of 1957 Kissing Case Biloxi wade - ins 1960 -- 1963 Greensboro sit - ins Nashville sit - ins Sit - in movement Civil Rights Act of 1960 Gomillion v. Lightfoot Boynton v. Virginia Rock Hill sit - ins Robert F. Kennedy 's Law Day Address Freedom Rides attacks Garner v. Louisiana Albany Movement University of Chicago sit - ins `` Second Emancipation Proclamation '' Meredith enrollment, Ole Miss riot `` Segregation now, segregation forever '' Stand in the Schoolhouse Door 1963 Birmingham campaign Letter from Birmingham Jail Children 's Crusade Birmingham riot 16th Street Baptist Church bombing John F. Kennedy 's Report to the American People on Civil Rights March on Washington `` I Have a Dream '' St. Augustine movement 1964 -- 1968 Twenty - fourth Amendment Bloody Tuesday Freedom Summer workers ' murders Civil Rights Act of 1964 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches `` How Long, Not Long '' Voting Rights Act of 1965 Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections March Against Fear White House Conference on Civil Rights Chicago Freedom Movement / Chicago open housing movement Memphis sanitation strike King assassination funeral riots Poor People 's Campaign Civil Rights Act of 1968 Green v. County School Board of New Kent County Activist groups Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights Atlanta Student Movement Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Congress of Racial Equality ( CORE ) Committee on Appeal for Human Rights Council for United Civil Rights Leadership Dallas County Voters League Deacons for Defense and Justice Georgia Council on Human Relations Highlander Folk School Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights Montgomery Improvement Association Nashville Student Movement NAACP Youth Council Northern Student Movement National Council of Negro Women National Urban League Operation Breadbasket Regional Council of Negro Leadership Southern Christian Leadership Conference ( SCLC ) Southern Regional Council Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ( SNCC ) The Freedom Singers Wednesdays in Mississippi Women 's Political Council Activists Ralph Abernathy Victoria Gray Adams Zev Aelony Mathew Ahmann William G. Anderson Gwendolyn Armstrong Arnold Aronson Ella Baker Marion Barry Daisy Bates Harry Belafonte James Bevel Claude Black Gloria Blackwell Randolph Blackwell Unita Blackwell Ezell Blair Jr. Joanne Bland Julian Bond Joseph E. Boone William Holmes Borders Amelia Boynton Raylawni Branch Ruby Bridges Aurelia Browder H. Rap Brown Guy Carawan Stokely Carmichael Johnnie Carr James Chaney J.L. Chestnut Colia Lafayette Clark Ramsey Clark Septima Clark Xernona Clayton Eldridge Cleaver Kathleen Cleaver Charles E. Cobb Jr. Annie Lee Cooper Dorothy Cotton Claudette Colvin Vernon Dahmer Jonathan Daniels Joseph DeLaine Dave Dennis Annie Devine Patricia Stephens Due Joseph Ellwanger Charles Evers Medgar Evers Myrlie Evers - Williams Chuck Fager James Farmer Walter E. Fauntroy James Forman Marie Foster Golden Frinks Andrew Goodman Fred Gray Jack Greenberg Dick Gregory Lawrence Guyot Prathia Hall Fannie Lou Hamer William E. Harbour Vincent Harding Dorothy Height Lola Hendricks Aaron Henry Oliver Hill Donald L. Hollowell James Hood Myles Horton Zilphia Horton T.R.M. Howard Ruby Hurley Jesse Jackson Jimmie Lee Jackson Richie Jean Jackson T.J. Jemison Esau Jenkins Barbara Rose Johns Vernon Johns Frank Minis Johnson Clarence Jones J. Charles Jones Matthew Jones Vernon Jordan Tom Kahn Clyde Kennard A.D. King C.B. King Coretta Scott King Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Sr. Bernard Lafayette James Lawson Bernard Lee Sanford R. Leigh Jim Letherer Stanley Levison John Lewis Viola Liuzzo Z. Alexander Looby Joseph Lowery Clara Luper Malcolm X Mae Mallory Vivian Malone Thurgood Marshall Benjamin Mays Franklin McCain Charles McDew Ralph McGill Floyd McKissick Joseph McNeil James Meredith William Ming Jack Minnis Amzie Moore Douglas E. Moore Harriette Moore Harry T. Moore William Lewis Moore Irene Morgan Bob Moses William Moyer Elijah Muhammad Diane Nash Charles Neblett Edgar Nixon Jack O'Dell James Orange Rosa Parks James Peck Charles Person Homer Plessy Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Fay Bellamy Powell Al Raby Lincoln Ragsdale A. Philip Randolph George Raymond Jr. Bernice Johnson Reagon Cordell Reagon James Reeb Frederick D. Reese Gloria Richardson David Richmond Bernice Robinson Jo Ann Robinson Bayard Rustin Bernie Sanders Michael Schwerner Cleveland Sellers Charles Sherrod Alexander D. Shimkin Fred Shuttlesworth Modjeska Monteith Simkins Glenn E. Smiley A. Maceo Smith Kelly Miller Smith Mary Louise Smith Maxine Smith Ruby Doris Smith - Robinson Charles Kenzie Steele Hank Thomas Dorothy Tillman A.P. Tureaud Hartman Turnbow Albert Turner C.T. Vivian Wyatt Tee Walker Hollis Watkins Walter Francis White Roy Wilkins Hosea Williams Kale Williams Robert F. 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Virginia Fifth Circuit Four Brown Chapel Holt Street Baptist Church Edmund Pettus Bridge March on Washington Movement African - American churches attacked Journey of Reconciliation Freedom Songs `` Kumbaya '' `` Keep Your Eyes on the Prize '' `` Oh, Freedom '' `` This Little Light of Mine '' `` We Shall Not Be Moved '' `` We Shall Overcome '' Spring Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam `` Beyond Vietnam : A Time to Break Silence '' Watts riots Voter Education Project 1960s counterculture In popular culture King Memorial Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument Freedom Riders National Monument Civil Rights Memorial The New Jim Crow ( 2010 ) Noted historians Taylor Branch Clayborne Carson John Dittmer Michael Eric Dyson Chuck Fager Adam Fairclough David Garrow David Halberstam Vincent Harding Steven F. Lawson Doug McAdam Diane McWhorter Charles M. 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Question: who was the black cabinet member who went on to play an important role in the civil rights movement
Answer: Mary Jane McLeod Bethune