Series : Print collections.
Image Number : PR00793
Date : 195-?
Subject Heading(s) :
Bethune, Mary McLeod, 1875-1955--Portraits.
Afro-American women--Florida--Daytona Beach.
Daytona Beach (Fla.)
Original : 1 photograph : b&w ; 10 x 8 in.
Notes : Born July 10, 1875 in Mayesville, SC to Samuel and Patsy McLeod,
one of 17 children. Educated in a Presbyterian mission school, Scotia Seminary,
and Moody Bible Institute. Ca. 1895 went to Palatka to teach. Met and married
Albertus Bethune, 1897. Mary and son Albert moved to Daytona ca. 1899 where
she opened a cabin school located on a dump site. $5 down and $5 a month.
Merged with the Cookman School for boys of Jackson in 1923 and died in
May 1955. |
