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Bookmark or Share- Homepage [www.cookman.edu]On October 3, 1904, an exceptional young Black woman, Mary McLeod Bethune, opened the Daytona Literary and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls—what would become Bethune-Cookman University—with $1.50, faith in God and five little girls, along with Dr. Bethune’s son, Albert.
- Mary McLeod Bethune Was at the Vanguard of More Than 50 Years of Black ...Bethune, seeing how desperately black Americans needed their share of the benefits of Roosevelt’s New Deal, solidified her influence as a counselor to the president and the only black woman in ...
- Mary McLeod Bethune - Quotes, Facts & Education - BiographyMary 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.
- Statue honoring Mary McLeod Bethune unveiled in Statuary Hall in US ...The daughter of formerly enslaved people, Bethune became an influential Black educator and civil and women’s rights leader.
- Mary McLeod Bethune | Biography & Facts | BritannicaMary McLeod Bethune, American educator who was active nationally in African American affairs and was a special adviser to President Franklin D. Roosevelt on the problems of minority groups. In 1935 she founded the National Council of Negro Women, of which she remained president until 1949.
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