Thesis: Mary McLeod Bethune ensured his life goal was to facilitate better lives for African Americans. Throughout her years as a political and civil rights activist, she was known as the “First Lady of Struggle” as she advised several U.S. presidents on the uplifting of Black people since the 20th Century. She never gave up on her passion to teach and educated young African American students. She believed that the key to racial advancement was education. She was an educator, organizer and political activist. She also founded one of the first schools for African American girls and was named the “First Lady of Negro America”. She would be a beneficial in today’s era because of the racial and social divide that is visually and physically experienced in modern day of age. Leaders such as her with skill sets of introducing education and rising of African American leaders instead of the hearsay is an inspiration for your African American to emulate.

I. Facilitated better lives for African Americans

a. founding the Daytona Literary and Industrial Training School

b. Devoted teacher that never turned a child away, even if they were unable to pay tuition

1. Monetary donations we provided from various community collections

c. Opened a high school and later on a hospital for blacks

II. Political and Civil Rights Activist

a. Director of the Negro Affairs of the National Youth Administration

b. Fought for the right of education and freedom from racial discrimination

c. Uplifting the Black Communities

III. Served as an advisor to several U.S. presidents

a. Red cross decided blacks were allowed to perform same duties as whites

IV. Legacy and Honors

a. The First Lady of Negro America

b. Founded the National Council for Negro Women in 1935

c. Bethune-Cookman UniversityInstructions
This course has introduced and assessed many noteworthy figures related to the continuing evolution of the United States and its place within the world during the last 170 years. For this assignment, you will develop a PowerPoint presentation based on your Unit V Outline. The presentation should be appropriate for an audience; in other words, it needs to be thoughtfully organized, visually attractive, and clear in the message you are trying to convey.
In the Unit V Outline, you chose an influential public figure working in America from the mid-19th century to the present. Your selection did not have to be an American citizen, but you were not to choose a U.S. president.
This presentation is not meant to be a biography. You should focus on communicating the figures relevance in todays modern era and highlight how society remembers him or her now.
The presentation must be a minimum of 10 slides and should address the concepts listed below.
Content

Introduce how your figure impacted a civil rights movement (including, but not limited to, creed, race, age, status, or gender). Note: His or her impact may not necessarily be a positive one.

Identify how this figure is viewed on the national and/or world stage.
Discuss how this figure may have influenced challenges and/or opportunities for the United States as a global power (i.e., their international impact).

Provide a perspective on if this figures impact would have been seen as progressive.

Organization

The organization of the presentation should be based on the Unit V Outline. Make sure that you utilize any feedback given on your outline.

Ideas should be grouped together and transition smoothly.

Make use of the notes section in each slide in order to communicate your thoughts and ideas. If you would prefer, audio voiceover can be utilized in place of slide notes.

Include a title slide (one slide), content slides (eight slides), and a reference slide (one slide).

Quality of Presentation

Creativity and effort are highly encouraged. PowerPoint provides several options for developing an exciting presentation, including options for both audio and video components; however, customizing the method of delivery for the presentation is up to you.

Use images, graphics, smart art, and backgrounds that enhance your presentation and make it look professional, clean, and visually attractive.

Click here to view a presentation on PowerPoint best practices. A transcript for this resource can be found within the Notes tab to the right of the presentation.

Citations and Formatting

Use a minimum of two sources that can be found in the CSU Online Library.

The American History and Life database is a good place to start, but other databases, such as Academic Search Complete, Films on Demand, and Ebook Central, may be used as well.

Click here to view a tutorial on how to search the American History and Life database. Note: This tutorial uses a U.S. president as an example, but remember that a U.S. president cannot be used for this assignment.

Additional sources are allowed, but they must be scholarly/academic in nature and come from reputable sources. Wikipedia or other similar online encyclopedias are not reputable sources. Click here to view a resource on evaluating websites to use in your research.

All sources used must be properly cited according to APA format. All in-text citations must have matching references listed on the references slide.