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Bethune left administrative service in 1944, returning to Daytona Beach. Appointed by the Truman administration as a consultant, she attended the San Francisco conference that framed the charter for the United Nations in 1945. In demand as a speaker, she continued to promote African American education before various groups around the country. In the 1940s her civil rights activities led her to be investigated by both the FBI and the House Un-American Activities Committee, but she continued her work undeterred. In 1949 she was invited to participate in the celebration of Haitian independence. In 1952 she traveled to Liberia as a U.S. representative at the inauguration of the new Liberian president. She died of a heart attack in 1955.
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Rackham Holt, Mary McLeod Bethune: A Biography (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1964).
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