Did You Know Bethune-Cookman University Was Founded On This Day?

Did You Know Bethune-Cookman University Was Founded On This Day?

Essence Magazine:

Jeff Greenberg/ Getty Images By Melissa Noel ·Updated October 3, 2023

On October 3, 1904, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune opened a training school in Daytona Beach, Florida, with “$1.50, faith in God and five little girls.” 

Eventually, that school, then called the Daytona Literary and Industrial

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