Dr. Mary Bethune, Educator and Activist, Florida, Daytona Beach

            Mary McLeod Bethune was born in 1875 near Mayesville, South Carolina. She was the fifteenth child of former enslaved parents. In 1904, Mary McLeod Bethune, opened the Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School for Black Girls.  A merger with the Cookman Institute, a school for boys located in Jacksonville was completed in 1923 with the establishment Bethune-Cookman College.  In 1935, Bethune was awarded the Spingarn Medal by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for outstanding leadership and service to education.  In addition to being an educator, Bethune lived a life of service.  She was in the forefront fighting for women voting rights.  She founded the National Council of Negro Women, whose mission is to advance opportunities and the quality of life for African American women, their families, and communities. Bethune served as director of the Division of Negro Affairs in President Franklin D. Roosevelt's National Youth Administration, and served as a consultant on interracial affairs to the first United Nations General Assembly in San Francisco.  Bethune led the Bethune-Cookman College into the 1940s.  Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune died in 1955.

Taken in: United States / Florida / Daytona Beach (show map)

Taken on: January 16, 2023

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