Mary McLeod Bethune
Mary Jane McLeod Bethune was an American educator and civil rights leader best known for starting a school for African-American students in Daytona Beach, Florida, that eventually became Bethune-Cookman University. She was a crucial part of the Civil Rights movement and its success in granting equal rights to the black community. She was also known to be an adviser to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. She was born a slave. At the young age of five she was out working in fields along with her slave parents. Bethune worked tirelessly to ensure funding for the school, and used it as a showcase for tourists and donors, to exhibit what educated African-Americans could do.