Mary McLeod Bethune (July 10, 1875 - May 18, 1955)

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Mary McLeod Bethune (July 10, 1875 - May 18, 1955)

Mary used to walk 10 miles to school everyday.

During 1904 she opened the Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls.

Then in 1923 the school merged with Cookman Institute and became

co-educational. At this time the school had a faculty and staff of 25 and

a student body of 300.

The school was renamed the Bethune-Cookman Institute in 1929 and awarded its first four-year degrees in 1943.

In 1936 President Franklin Roosevelt placed Mary Bethune in charge of Negro Affairs of the National Youth Administration making her the first Black woman to be a presidential adviser. In 1935, Bethune founded the National Council of Negro Women, which united many major national Black women's associations.

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