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In three to five sentences, summarize how the actions of Mary McLeod Bethune advanced the civil rights movement for African Americans.

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Bethune became one of the leading civil rights activists of her era. [Quick Fun Fact]: (Bethune was the only woman of color at the founding conference of the United Nations in 1945) She led a group of african american women to vote after the 1920 ratification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, to which giving the women the right to vote. She later became the first African American woman to have a monument dedicated to her in Washington, D.C.