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 ...

Mary McLeod Bethune, pictured in the 1920s, when her school became a co-ed institution ... In 1911, she opened the region’s first hospital for black citizens, McLeod Hospital, named for her ...

In 1904, she founded a small school for girls in Daytona ... under one major umbrella. The Mary McLeod Bethune Council ...

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 ...

Mary McLeod Bethune was convinced at an early age that the ability to read was a key barrier to racial equality, and she dedicated her life to helping African-Americans attain better access to ...