Mary McLeod Bethune started a school in 1904 with $1.50 and five students. It is now Bethune-Cookman University.

Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune, Director of Negro Affairs ... With the success of her school, Bethune went on to be a spokesman for her race and her gender. In 1935, she founded the National Council ...

Mary McLeod Bethune is best known for founding the Bethune-Cookman College, a HBCU in Daytona, but also being a standout ...

Born Mary Jane McLeod, Bethune was the 15th of 17 children. She grew up on a farm in South Carolina and began working in the fields when she was 5. The only child in her family to be educated, she ...

The scholars inside Ms. McKenzie's fifth-grade classroom at Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Elementary School in Riviera Beach may ...

Bethune-Cookman University has opened a food bank, Mother Mary's Market, for students, faculty and staff in a building on the Daytona Beach campus.

Mary McLeod Bethune rose to become one of the most influential Black women of the 20th century. In 1904, she founded a small school for girls in Daytona Beach, Florida. That school later became ...

Mary McLeod Bethune started a school in 1904 with $1.50 and five students. It is now Bethune-Cookman University. Tim Walters Zora Neale Hurston rose to literary prominence 15 years after death ...

Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune, Director of Negro Affairs ... With the success of her school, Bethune went on to be a spokesman for her race and her gender. In 1935, she founded the National Council ...

Rev. Kenya Lovell, chaplain of Bethune-Cookman University, has been involved in a monthly community food giveaway, and her powers of observation led her to a conclusion. B-CU needed a food pantry.