as Florida Representative Val Demings explained in celebrating Bethune's selection for the Capitol: “Mary McLeod Bethune was the most powerful woman I can remember as a child. She has been an ...

DAYTONA BEACH — Her solitary grave rests among the serene beauty of Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach. Yet, the school’s founder — Mary McLeod ... they moved to Florida where ...

Mary McLeod Bethune, the child of former slaves, grew up to start a university and advise presidents ... Bethune went on to found a girl’s school in Daytona Beach, Florida. As the story goes, she ...

On October 3, 1904, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune opened a training school ... it merged with the Cookman Institute of Jacksonville, Florida, according to the University’s website.

Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune ... One year later, Mary Bethune returned to her life's passion. Hearing that the labor needed to build a railroad on Florida's east coast was attracting a significant ...

Born to former slaves a decade after the end of the Civil War, educator and political leader Mary McLeod Bethune grew up in South Carolina ... a school for African-American girls in Daytona, Florida, ...