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Feb 17 • 8 tweets • 5 min read
@0briang …world-renowned woman[Bethune] who’d begun life as Mary Jane McLeod, daughter of freed slaves. [Read more at bit.ly/3H05O4W BY Dovey Johnson Roundtree &
Katie McCabe via @yesmagazine]
Alongside her[Bethune] sixteen brothers and sisters she’d picked cotton in the fields of Mayesville, South Carolina,[Read more at bit.ly/3H05O4W BY Dovey Johnson Roundtree & Katie McCabe via @yesmagazine]
until with her[Bethune] brilliance she captured the attention of a Black missionary who’d seen to her schooling.[Read more at bit.ly/3H05O4W BY Dovey Johnson Roundtree & Katie McCabe via @yesmagazine]
Barred because of her[Bethune] race from the missions of Africa to which she felt called, she’d taken on the fight for Negro advancement as her life’s work.[Read more at bit.ly/3H05O4W BY Dovey Johnson Roundtree &
Katie McCabe via @yesmagazine]
In a tiny cabin with five pupils, she[Bethune] founded the Florida normal school that would eventually become Bethune-Cookman College,[Read more at bit.ly/3H05O4W BY Dovey Johnson Roundtree &
Katie McCabe via @yesmagazine]
and as a child I loved to hear the tales of how she’d[Bethune] used packing crates for desks and elderberry juice for ink and raised funds by selling sweet potato pies.[Read more at bit.ly/3H05O4W BY Dovey Johnson Roundtree &
Katie McCabe via @yesmagazine]
Later, when poll taxes shut Blacks out of the voting booth, it was said she[Bethune] took to bicycling around the countryside collecting money to pay them[Read more at bit.ly/3H05O4W BY Dovey Johnson Roundtree &
Katie McCabe via @yesmagazine]
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