Black History Month

here Hello  today I am going to tell you about Black History Month. Today you will learn about the fight for education . I am also going to tell you about Mary Mcleod Bethune.

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Mary Mcleod Bethune was a famous person who helped black students get a better education. She also taught black students and worked with presidents to fight to make sure every child in the U.S got a good education. Back in the 1800s, blacks could not get any education. if they did get education they could not be with whites in the same classroom. 

   

Mary Mcleod Bethune was the fifteenth child out of seventeen. She was the only one that was not a slave when she was born. She was not a slave because Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. The Emancipation Proclamation helped black slaves be free. Mary was the