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Photo, Print, Drawing Mary McLeod Bethune with a Line of Girls from the School.

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Title

  • Mary McLeod Bethune with a Line of Girls from the School.

Summary

  • Mary McLeod Bethune was a pioneering American educator and civil rights leader. Born Mary Jane McLeod on July 10, 1875, in Mayesville, South Carolina, the daughter of former slaves, Bethune won scholarships to attend Scotia Seminary in Concord, North Carolina (now Barber-Scotia College), and the Institute for Home and Foreign Missions in Chicago (now the Moody Bible Institute). In 1904, she moved to Daytona Beach, Florida, to found her own school. Her one-room school house became the Daytona Normal and Industrial School for Negro Girls before merging with Cookman Institute for Boys in 1923. The merged school later affiliated with the United Methodist Church and became the historically-black college named in her honor, Bethune-Cookman College (now Bethune-Cookman University). In 1936, President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Bethune the director of the National Youth Administration's Division of Negro Affairs, making her the first black woman to head a federal agency. She also founded the National Council of Negro Women and was an active member of the National Association of Colored Women until her death in May 1955.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1905.

Headings

  • -  United States of America--Florida--Daytona Beach
  • -  1905
  • -  African Americans
  • -  African Americans--Segregation
  • -  Bethune, Mary McLeod, 1875-1955
  • -  Civil rights
  • -  Girls
  • -  Teachers
  • -  Women

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 1 negative: black and white; 4 x 5 inches.
  • -  Original resource at: State Library and Archives of Florida.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

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  • 1 online resource.

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  • 2021669923

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Chicago citation style:

Mary McLeod Bethune with a Line of Girls from the School. Florida Daytona Beach United States of America, 1905. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021669923/.

APA citation style:

(1905) Mary McLeod Bethune with a Line of Girls from the School. Florida Daytona Beach United States of America, 1905. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021669923/.

MLA citation style:

Mary McLeod Bethune with a Line of Girls from the School. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021669923/>.