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Mary McLeod Bethune

Mary McLeod Bethune was born July 10, 1875 in Mayesville, South Carolina. She became the first African American to be hired by a president. African Americans with this high of a position was very rare in the 1930s. Mary McLeod Bethune was the director of the National Youth Administration (NYA). She died May 18, 1955.

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