Educator
Mary McLeod Bethune
1875 – 1955
Founded the Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls in 1904 with $1.50 and five Black girls. Today's Bethune-Cookman University. Founder of the National Council of Negro Women. Adviser to FDR and the first African American woman to head a federal agency.
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