Mary's Timeline
1863- Emcancipation Proclamation announced the end of slavery
1875- Mary McLeod Bethune is born
1884- Entered Miss Wilson's School
1887- Entered Scotia Seminary
1894- Graduates from Scotia Seminary
1895- Began teaching at Miss Wilson's School
1898- Married Albertus Bethune
1899- First child born
1904- Opende Daytona Educational and Industrial School for Negro Girls
1906- Her father died
1909- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
1912- First student completed eighth grade at her school
1919- Race riots break out in Chicago
1925- Bethune College and Cookman College merge to form Bethune-Cookman College
1935- Chosen as Roosevelt's special advisor on minority affairs
1936- Was appointed as administrator of the Office of Minority Affairs
1945- Franklin Delano Roosevelt dies
1955- Mary dies at the age of 80 in Daytona Beach, Florida
