Happy Founder’s Day to Bethune-Cookman College. On this day, October 3, 1904, Mary McCleod Bethune opened the Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls. Bethune had $1.50, faith in God and five little girls: Lena, Lucille, and Ruth Warren, Anna Geiger and Celest Jackson. Through Dr. Bethune’s lifetime the school underwent several stages of […]
