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After retiring, Mary became a field supervisor and adjunct professor at
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At the end of her career, Mary became the historian for her house of worship in
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to teach at a teacher preparation college there. She was very thrilled to return to the continent of her ancestors, to learn from her heritage and be part of a majority, as she described it. There she also came into contact with presidents and officials of
African countries. However she denied the
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After teaching and creating awareness at the
Roosevelt school district, she went on to teach in Rockville Center, and went so far as to create the after-school clubs 'PINK' and 'BLUE' to promote diversity, multiculturalism and anti-violence. Mary Kennedy Carter was a preacher amongst students and
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publishers as editor and writer. There she met her husband Donald Carter. She left McGraw-Hill for the opportunity to create a module of Black
History at the Roosevelt school district, Long Island. In that period she managed to get many important speakers to the school district, including
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In 1970 Mary
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Racial segregation for Mary also became apparent in that she couldn't use places to go out for entertainment unrestricted, like restaurants, swimming pools, the skate rink or the movie theatre.
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