Bethune–Cookman University
Bethune–Cookman University is a private historically black university in Daytona Beach, Florida. Bethune–Cookman University is affiliated with the United Methodist Church. The primary administration building, White Hall, and the Mary McLeod Bethune Home are two historic locations.
Bethune–Cookman University
Mary McLeod Bethune with a group of students in 1943
Bethune-Cookman's Performing Arts Center
BCU flag
Mary Jane McLeod Bethune was an American educator, philanthropist, humanitarian, womanist, and civil rights activist. Bethune founded the National Council of Negro Women in 1935, established the organization's flagship journal Aframerican Women's Journal, and presided as president or leader for a myriad of African American women's organizations including the National Association for Colored Women and the National Youth Administration's Negro Division.
Portrait by Carl Van Vechten, 1949
The cabin in Mayesville, South Carolina where Mary Jane McLeod was born
Mary McLeod Bethune with girls from the Literary and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls in Daytona, c. 1905
Marian Anderson, celebrated contralto, and Mary McLeod Bethune, Director of Negro Affairs in the National Youth Administration, at the launching of the SS Booker T. Washington with unidentified workers who helped construct the first Liberty ship named for an African American at the California Shipbuilding Corporation's yards by Alfred T. Palmer
