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 ...

Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune, Director of Negro Affairs ... Hearing that the labor needed to build a railroad on Florida's east coast was attracting a significant amount of the South's Black ...

Mary McLeod Bethune, the child of former slaves ... Bethune went on to found a girl’s school in Daytona Beach, Florida. As the story goes, she started the school with $1.50 and just six students ...

Dr. Duncan is the vice chief of anesthesiology at HCA Florida Palms West Hospital in Loxahatchee. But recently, he's speaking to scholars in the classroom — at Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Elementary ...

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, ...