Swampy's Florida

Today marks the anniversary of the start of, what would become, Bethune-Cookman University.
Mary Bethune brought so much (Through very hard work) to that area of Volusia County through her leadership with the Methodist Church. So many folks need to develop the drive she had to get results.

Facebook page, ‘A Mighty Girl’ sums the story well:

Pioneering educator Mary McLeod Bethune opened the Daytona Educational and Industrial School for Negro Girls on this day in 1904 with just $1.50. The first class had six students and supplies were so meager when the Florida school was founded that students made ink for pens from elderberry juice and pencils from burned wood. Twenty years later, it became Bethune-Cookman College. Born on this day in 1875 to former slaves, Bethune also founded the National Council of Negro Women in 1935. She became one of the first African Americans to advise a U.S. President when she served as Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Minority Affairs adviser. In 1936, Roosevelt appointed Bethune the director of the National Youth Administration’s Division of Negro Affairs, making her the first African American woman to head a federal division. Upon her death in 1955, columnist Louis E. Martin honored Bethune’s immense impact in touching many lives, stating: “She gave out faith and hope as if they were pills and she some sort of doctor.”