Dr. Mary Jane McLeod Bethune
Bethune, Mary Jane McLeod, 1875-1955
Educators--Florida
Bethune-Cookman College (Daytona Beach, Fla.)
Civil rights--Florida
Dr. Mary Jane McLeod Bethune, the founder of Bethune-Cookman College in Daytona Beach, Florida. Dr. Bethune was born in Mayesville, South Carolina, on July 10, 1875. In October of 1904, she founded the Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls. In 1923, the school merged with the Cookman Institute of Jacksonville and then became affiliated with the Methodist Church the following year. The school served as a co-educational high school until 1931 when it became a junior college. In 1941, the school was accredited as a four-year college and was renamed Bethune-Cookman College. Dr. Bethune served as the college president from 1923 to 1942 and again from 1946 to 1947. Dr. Bethune was also active in civil rights and women's rights. She founded the Southeastern Federation of Colored Women's Clubs (SFCWC) in 1920. She also campaigned for President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1932 and was offered a position in his Black Cabinet after he won the election. Dr. Bethune died in Daytona Beach on May 18, 1955.
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Original 8 x 10 inch black and white photographic print: <a href="http://www.cookman.edu/about_BCU/history/index.html" target="_blank">Mary McLeod Bethune Foundation</a>, Daytona Beach, Florida.
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Mary McLeod Bethune Foundation, Mary McLeod Bethune Home, Bethune-Cookman University, Daytona Beach, Florida
Southeastern Federation of Colored Women's Clubs
Bethune, Mary Jane McLeod, 1875-1955
The Southeastern Federation of Colored Women's Clubs (SFCWC) sometime between 1920 and 1955. Photographed in the front row from left to right is Margaret Murray Washington (Mrs. Booker T. Washington), Mary McLeod Bethune, Lucy Craft Laney, and Mary Jackson McCrorey. The second Row from left to right is Janie Porter Barrett, M.L. Crosthwaite, Charlotte Hawkins Brown, and Eugenia Burns Hope.<br /><br />SFCWC was founded by Dr. Bethune in 1920 to united state club federations from Florida, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Virginia. The organization sought to combat school desegregation and to improve health facilities. Dr. Bethune also served as the SFCWC's first president from 1920 to 1925. Under her leadership, the group was able to found a state home for delinquent, young, African-American women and establish and operate the Home for Delinquent Girls in Ocala in 1921.
Original 10 x 8 inch black and white photographic print: Living room, <a href="http://www.cookman.edu/about_BCU/history/index.html" target="_blank">Mary McLeod Bethune Foundation</a>, Daytona Beach, Florida.
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Mary McLeod Bethune Foundation, Mary McLeod Bethune Home, Bethune-Cookman University, Daytona Beach, Florida
Dr. Mary Jane McLeod Bethune with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt
Bethune, Mary Jane McLeod, 1875-1955
Roosevelt, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962
First ladies (United States)
Educators--Florida
Bethune-Cookman College (Daytona Beach, Fla.)
Dr. Mary Jane Mcleod Bethune presenting the First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt an honorary degree from Bethune-Cookman College in Daytona Beach, Florida, on March 19, 1953. The two women had developed a friendship previously and Roosevelt had arranged for Dr. Bethune's appointment as Director of the Division of Negro Affairs of the National Youth Administration (NYA) when Roosevelt's husband, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was President.<br /><br />Originally the Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls, Bethune-Cookman was established by African-American educator and civil rights activist Dr. Mary Jane McLeod Bethune in October 1904. In 1923, the school merged with the Cookman Institute of Jacksonville and then became affiliated with the Methodist Church the following year. The school served as a co-educational high school until 1931 when it became a junior college. In 1941, the school was accredited as a four-year college and was renamed Bethune-Cookman College.
Original 8 x 10 inch black and white photographic print: Sun room, image 154, <a href="http://www.cookman.edu/about_BCU/history/index.html" target="_blank">Mary McLeod Bethune Foundation</a>, Daytona Beach, Florida.
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Bethune-Cookman College, Daytona Beach, Florida
Albert McLeod Bethune, Sr.
Morticians
A portrait of Albert McLeod Bethune, Sr., which is housed at the Mary McLeod Bethune Foundation, located at 640 Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Boulevard in Daytona Beach, Florida. Albert Bethune was the only child of Albertus Bethune and Dr. Mary Jane McLeod Bethune. He was born on February 3, 1899, and served in the United States Army during World War I, when he was a young adult. Albert Bethune was one of the first students at his mother's school, after it merged with the Cookman Institute in 1923. He later went to the Haines Institute in Augusta, Georgia. Albert then became the owner and operator of Bethune Funeral Home for 25 years. He was also a retired coordinator of vocational services at Bethune-Cookman College (B-CC). He died on October 31, 1989.
Original 8 x 10 inch black and white photographic print: Sun room, image 78, <a href="http://www.cookman.edu/about_BCU/history/index.html" target="_blank">Mary McLeod Bethune Foundation</a>, Daytona Beach, Florida.
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Bethune-Cookman College, Daytona Beach, Florida
Mary McLeod Bethune Foundation, Mary McLeod Bethune Home, Bethune-Cookman University, Daytona Beach, Florida
Margaret Bethune
Daytona Beach (Fla.)
Morticians
A portrait of Margaret Bethune, which is housed at the Mary McLeod Bethune Foundation, located at 640 Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Boulevard in Daytona Beach, Florida. Bethune was the daughter-in-law of Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955). She married Dr. Bethune's son, Albert McLeod Bethune, Sr. Bethune also enrolled in mortuary school sometime between 1934 and 1941.
Original 8 x 10 inch black and white photographic print: Sun room, image 172, <a href="http://www.cookman.edu/about_BCU/history/index.html" target="_blank">Mary McLeod Bethune Foundation</a>, Daytona Beach, Florida.
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Daytona Beach, Florida
Edward R. Rodriguez
Miami (Fla.)
Daytona Beach (Fla.)
A portrait of Edward "Rod" R. Rodriguez, which is housed at the Mary McLeod Bethune Foundation, located at 640 Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Boulevard in Daytona Beach, Florida. Rodriguez was the foster son of Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955). He was also the second male to register at the school in 1923, when it merged with the Cookman Institute. While a student, he was a member of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. Rodriguez later served as the first curator and director of the Mary McLeod Bethune Foundation, located on the Bethune-Cookman University campus. The foundation was established on March 17, 1953, as "a place to awaken people and to have them realize that there is something in the world they can do." The foundation is housed in the Mary McLeod Bethune Home, which is also known as "The Retreat."
Original 8 x 10 inch black and white photographic print: Image 77, <a href="http://www.cookman.edu/about_BCU/history/index.html" target="_blank">Mary McLeod Bethune Foundation</a>, Daytona Beach, Florida.
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Miami, Florida
Mary McLeod Bethune Foundation, Mary McLeod Bethune Home, Bethune-Cookman University, Daytona Beach, Florida
Oral History of Charlie Morgan
Sanford (Fla.)
African Americans--Florida
Oranges--Florida
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Segregation--Florida
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Race relations--United States
Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Celery
Civil rights movements--United States
An oral history of Charlie Morgan, conducted by Joseph Morris on September 21, 2011. Morgan was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1940, but migrated to Bookertown, an African-American community in Sanford, Florida. In the interview, Morgan discusses life in Bookertown, working in the agriculture and construction industries, segregation and race relations in Sanford, moonshine, civil rights, serving in the military during the Vietnam War, how Bookertown and Sanford have changed over time, and Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955).
Morris, Joseph
Morgan, Charlie
Original 1-hour, 14-minute, and 22-second oral history: Morgan, Charlie Interviewed by Joseph Morris. September 21, 2011. Audio record available. <a href="http://www.seminolecountyfl.gov/departments-services/leisure-services/parks-recreation/museum-of-seminole-county-history/" target="_blank">Museum of Seminole County History</a>, Sanford, Florida.
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Albany, Georgia
Bookertown, Sanford, Florida
Ace Theatre, Sanford, Florida
Ritz Theatre, Sanford, Florida
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Vietnam
The Long History of the African American Civil Rights Movement in Florida
Civil rights--Florida
Exhibit
Civil Rights Movement
Civil rights movements--Florida
The Long History of the African American Civil Rights Movement in Florida, an exhibit created by Dr. Robert Cassanello and his students at the University of Central Florida. The exhibit chronicles both national and local events in the civil rights movements dating from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. Curators for the exhibit were Joseph Corbett and Anne Ladyem McDiviitt. Assistant curators included Patrick Anderson, Laura Cepero, Jennifer Cook, Tanya Engelhardt, Jacob Flynn, William Franklin, Barbara Houser, Rustin Lloyd, Joshua Petitt, Lindsey Turnbull, and Jon Wolfe. Andrew Callovi was the graphic designer.
Corbett, Joseph
McDivitt, Anne Ladyem
Anderson, Patrick
Cepero, Laura
Cook, Jennifer
Englehardt, Tanya
Flynn, Jacob
Franklin, William
Houser, Barbara
Lloyd, Rustin
Petitt, Joshua
Turnbull
Lindsey
Wolfe, Jon
Cassanello, Robert
Callovi, Andrew
Original exhibit by Robert Cassanello's Spring 2011 Historiography Graduate Class: <a href="http://history.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">University of Central Florida Department of History</a>, Orlando, Florida.
<a href="http://history.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">University of Central Florida Department of History</a>
<a href="http://www.floridamemory.com/photographiccollection/" target="_blank">Florida Photographic Collection</a>
<a href="http://dlis.dos.state.fl.us/index_Researchers.cfm" target="_blank">State Library and Archives of Florida</a>
<a href="http://www.loc.gov/" target="_blank">Library of Congress</a>
<a href="http://www.nypl.org/locations/schomburg%20target=">Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture</a>
Barton, Juanita
Gary, Bill
<a href="http://www.harryharriettemoore.org/" target="_blank">Harry T. &amp</a>
Harriette V. Moore Cultural Complex, Inc.
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