Word: cookman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Negroes look upon Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune as the First Lady of their race. She was born of former slaves in South Carolina, walked five miles a day to school. Years later, she founded a school of her own, finally became president of coeducational Bethune-Cookman College in Daytona Beach, Fla. At 73, she is a dumpy, bright-eyed lady with a penchant for floppy hats and an unquenchably quiet determination to better the lot of her race. "I like Mary Bethune," Franklin D. Roosevelt once remarked. "She has kept her feet on the ground-and they are definitely planted...
...other newsworthy hats got together when Eleanor Roosevelt (in a small, fussy one) and Bethune-Cookman College's Mary McLeod Bethune (in a forthright, big one) put their heads together over tea in Manhattan (see cut). Occasion: a fund-raising drive for a rural school for wayward boys...
Today Bethune-Cookman* is a four-year, co-ed college-with 450 students and an $800,000 campus. The emphasis is still on vocational training. Like Booker T. Washington, President Emeritus Bethune thinks Negro education's first job is to teach job skills to Negroes. (Most of Bethune-Cookman's 2,350 graduates are teachers...
...Bethune's school merged with the Methodist Cookman Institute (for Negro boys...