Mary McLeod's slave parents		free-born child of the McLeod's seventeen children.
Mary's brothers and sisters		a missionary in Africa.
Mary was the first		Bethune also opened a hospital.
In addition to starting a school		were sold when they became old enough to work.
When Mary began to learn numbers she		were owned by different masters.
She was able to go to school at Concord		a house for her aging parents.
Her goal was to become		because she was awarded a scholarship.
When she was teaching she bought		her maiden name to honor her father.
When she married she kept		realized her father was being cheated on his crops.
In a dream she saw Booker T. Washington		helped Bethune to build and support a school.
The second year after she started a school		handing her a huge diamond.
Several wealthy people		she had 100 girls attending.