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 ...

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 ...

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The school grew to include a farm ... and a power broker with few equals,” says Bettye Collier-Thomas, the founder and first director of the Mary McLeod Bethune Memorial Museum and the National ...

Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Women’s Conference will be held Wednesday, March 26 through Friday, March 28 at the Michael and Libby ...

Yet, the school’s founder — Mary McLeod Bethune — is never alone ... By the end of the first year Bethune was teaching 30 girls. In 1907, Albertus left Mary and moved to South Carolina.

In 1904, she founded a small school for girls in Daytona ... under one major umbrella. The Mary McLeod Bethune Council House-National Historic Site was the first headquarters of the organization.