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Apr 2, 2014 · Bethune became the one and only child in her family to go to school when a missionary opened a school nearby for African American children.
Jan 27, 2021 · At age 10, Bethune became the first and only child in her family to go to school, walking miles each way to get there. She understood the importance of education from an early age and did...
Pioneering educator and college founder Mary McLeod Bethune set educational standards for today’s Black colleges and served as an advisor to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Discover more about her on womenshistory.org.
Bethune worked as a teacher briefly at her former school in Sumter County. In 1896, she began teaching at Haines Normal and Industrial Institute in Augusta, Georgia , which was part of a Presbyterian mission organized by northern congregations.
May 15, 2023 · Recognising the power of education in breaking the chains of oppression, Bethune seized the opportunity to attend school when a missionary established a local institution for African American children.
Aug 23, 2017 · Mary McLeod Bethune’s dream of establishing a school of her own finally became real when she opened the doors of Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School for Girls in 1904 with five students.
In 1904 Bethune moved to the east coast of Florida, where a large African American population had grown up at the time of the construction of the Florida East Coast Railway, and in Daytona Beach, in October, she opened a school of her own, the Daytona Normal and Industrial Institute for Negro Girls.
