"It's an extraordinary honor to be selected as the 8th president of the GREAT Bethune-Cookman University, and to build upon ...

Mary McLeod Bethune was born in 1875 to former slaves. Found school for girls in 1904 with only $1.50. Friendship with first lady leads to federal appointment at National Youth Administration ...

The good news is that with the legacy of people like Mary McLeod Bethune, thinking about the private girls school she started in Daytona Beach, which of course became one of the great historically ...

With only $1.50 in seed funding — a reality hardly imaginable now and meager even then—Mary Jane McLeod ... and Industrial School for Training Negro Girls was born. Dr. Bethune understood ...

Mrs. Mary McLeod ... school expanded to include 250 students just two years later. The school gained in popularity and eventually merged with the Cookman Institute for Men in Jacksonville to form ...

More about the unveiling: Mary McLeod Bethune statue unveiling this week at the US Capitol in Washington, D.C. Leaders behind statue project: Diverse Daytona Beach group joins forces on Mary ...

The statue is 11 feet tall and chiseled from 6,000 pounds of the world's best marble.Dr. Mary McLeod ... "Bethune made her mark on Central Florida first at the turn of the 20th century, opening a ...

But as I experienced so vividly in Mayesville, listening to the Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Legacy Children’s Choir sing, “Who built the school? Sister Mary built the school!” — the song with ...

Mary McLeod Bethune was a civil rights activist and founder of the National Council of Negro Women, an educator who, against insurmountable odds, opened a school in 1904 for Black girls in Florida ...

A statue of Mary McLeod Bethune ... collection. Bethune was a civil rights activist, a presidential adviser and the founder of the Daytona Literary and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls ...

DAYTONA BEACH — Her solitary grave rests among the serene beauty of Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach. Yet, the ...