Mary McLeod Bethune opens the Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls.
Mary McLeod Bethune, educator and civil rights leader, opened the Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls, which would become Bethune-Cookman University, in Daytona Beach, Florida, on Oct. 3, 1904. The historically Black university claims to have graduated more than 13,200 students since 1943.
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