Mary McLeod Bethune was born in Mayesville, South Carolina, the 15th of 17th children. In her early years, she picked cotton and attended a Methodist mission school.
In 1888, Mary McLeod Bethune received a scholarship to Scotia Seminary in North Carolina. After graduating in 1893, she enrolled at the Bible Institute in Chicago, to become a missionary to Africa. She discovered, that African Americans were not selected for such assignments.
Instead, Mary McLeod Bethune became a teacher in several Presbyterian schools in Georgia and South Carolina. She married Albertus Bethune in 1898, andtheir son was born in 1899.
Moving to Florida, and realizing that the workers being brought in for railway construction needed schools for their families, Mary McLeod Bethune opened the Daytona Normal and Industrial Institute in 1904, with only a few students. She raised funds, ran the school, taught the students, and the school grew.
Mary McLeod Bethune focused the school on educating girls, who had few other opportunities for education. First, the school focused on primary lessons and later on high school. While first stressing industrial training and religious instruction, gradually the school moved to more academic subjects.
The school was supported in part by whites,in 1911, after the school added nursing classes, Bethune also opened a hospital, because students could not be admitted to the local, whites-only, hospital. (The hospital closed in 1931.)
In the 1920s, Bethune arranged for the school's affiliation with the Methodist Episcopal Church, and in 1923. The school, which had begun with a handful of students, grew to a peak of 1,000 students and won full accreditation -- 1939 as a junior college and 1941 as a four-year college.
Mary McLeod Bethune served as President of the school from 1904 until 1942 but she was also involved in other organizations, extending her interest in opportunities for young African Americans.
Mary McLeod Bethune was active in the Methodist Episcopal Church. She was a delegate to be in the general conference held each four years. In 1924, Mary McLeod Bethune was elected president of the National Association of Colored Women (NACW).
During World War I, Bethune helped the American Red Cross during world war I she active different campaigns.
In 1888, Mary McLeod Bethune received a scholarship to Scotia Seminary in North Carolina. After graduating in 1893, she enrolled at the Bible Institute in Chicago, to become a missionary to Africa. She discovered, that African Americans were not selected for such assignments.
Instead, Mary McLeod Bethune became a teacher in several Presbyterian schools in Georgia and South Carolina. She married Albertus Bethune in 1898, andtheir son was born in 1899.
Moving to Florida, and realizing that the workers being brought in for railway construction needed schools for their families, Mary McLeod Bethune opened the Daytona Normal and Industrial Institute in 1904, with only a few students. She raised funds, ran the school, taught the students, and the school grew.
Mary McLeod Bethune focused the school on educating girls, who had few other opportunities for education. First, the school focused on primary lessons and later on high school. While first stressing industrial training and religious instruction, gradually the school moved to more academic subjects.
The school was supported in part by whites,in 1911, after the school added nursing classes, Bethune also opened a hospital, because students could not be admitted to the local, whites-only, hospital. (The hospital closed in 1931.)
In the 1920s, Bethune arranged for the school's affiliation with the Methodist Episcopal Church, and in 1923. The school, which had begun with a handful of students, grew to a peak of 1,000 students and won full accreditation -- 1939 as a junior college and 1941 as a four-year college.
Mary McLeod Bethune served as President of the school from 1904 until 1942 but she was also involved in other organizations, extending her interest in opportunities for young African Americans.
Mary McLeod Bethune was active in the Methodist Episcopal Church. She was a delegate to be in the general conference held each four years. In 1924, Mary McLeod Bethune was elected president of the National Association of Colored Women (NACW).
During World War I, Bethune helped the American Red Cross during world war I she active different campaigns.
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