In 1935, Bethune founded the National Council of Negro Women, an “organization of organizations” to unify African American women’s organizations under one major umbrella. The Mary McLeod Bethune ...

Mrs. Mary McLeod ... school expanded to include 250 students just two years later. The school gained in popularity and eventually merged with the Cookman Institute for Men in Jacksonville to form ...

The school grew to include a farm ... and a power broker with few equals,” says Bettye Collier-Thomas, the founder and first director of the Mary McLeod Bethune Memorial Museum and the National ...

Bethune-Cookman University students walked into a board meeting to protest trustees' rejection of a presidential search ...

Mrs. Mary McLeod ... school expanded to include 250 students just two years later. The school gained in popularity and eventually merged with the Cookman Institute for Men in Jacksonville to form ...