Question

In which way were Mary McLeod Bethune and Hypatia alike?

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Mary McLeod Bethune was an educator and activist, serving as president of the National Association of Colored Women and founding the National Council of Negro Women. Hypatia was a Hellenistic Neoplatonist philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician, who lived in Alexandria, Egypt, then part of the Eastern Roman Empire. She was a prominent thinker of the Neoplatonic school in Alexandria where she taught philosophy and astronomy. They are alike in the ways of being an educator, as Mary McLeod Bethune was an educator of enslaved African Americans, and Hypatia was an educator of philosophy and astronomy.