トームさんのインスタグラム写真 - (トームInstagram)「100 years ago today, the United States ratified the 19th Amendment securing the women's right to vote #repost @women_you_should_know Born July 10, 1875 in Mayesville, South Carolina, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, the daughter of former slaves, "became one of the most important black educators, civil and women’s rights leaders and government officials of the twentieth century." . Bethune opened her first school in 1904, Daytona Literary and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls. It "became a college, merging with the all-male Cookman Institute to form Bethune-Cookman College [now Bethune-Cookman University] in 1929". It was accredited in 1931. . A champion of racial and gender equality, in 1924 Dr. Bethune was elected president of the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs, and in 1935 became the founding president of the National Council of Negro Women with a "mission to advance the opportunities and the quality of life for African American women, their families and communities." In 1940, she became vice president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Persons (NAACP). . In 1936, Dr. Bethune became "the highest ranking African American woman in government when President Franklin Roosevelt named her director of Negro Affairs of the National Youth Administration", making her the first African American woman to head a federal agency. "Appointed by President Harry S. Truman, Bethune was the only woman of color at the founding conference of the United Nations in 1945." . Biographic info citation: Michals, Debra. "Mary McLeod Bethune." National Women's History Museum. National Women's History Museum, 2015 - bit.ly/2nxmkUk . Photo: Public Domain - Mary McLeod Bethune with school girls, circa 1905 . #WYSK #WomenYouShouldKnow #marymcleodbethune #historymaker #blackwomenleaders #civilrights #racialequality #womensrights」8月19日 4時26分