Mary McLeod Bethune statue placed at US Capitol | USA TODAY
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as posted by the channelMary McLeod Bethune becomes the first Black person to be represented with a state statue in Statuary Hall.
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Born into a family of South Carolina slaves, Mary McLeod Bethune grew up to begin her own school for Black girls in 1904 "with six students, one of which was her son Albert, with $1.50," said Lawrence M. Drake II, interim president of Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Florida.
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