Dr. Paula McKenzie Bethune-Cookman University 2017
This collection of photos came from the Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site, Washington, DC and the State Library & Archives of Florida. The slide show chronicles highlights of Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune s life a legacy to be remembered.
Photo provided by Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site, Washington, DC Samuel McLeod and Patsy McIntosh McLeod Mary Jane McLeod was fifteenth of seventeen children born to former slaves Samuel and Patsy McIntosh McLeod on July 10, 1875.
Photo provided by Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site, Washington, DC Bethune s sisters standing in front of their home in Mayesville, SC. Father and my brothers got the logs that built the cabin, the cabin where I was born I was born in our own home cabin, and on our own soil.
At age 29, after being sponsored at a mission school in South Carolina and receiving a scholarship to Moody Bible Institute, Bethune moved to Daytona Beach to start her own school. The one room school became the Daytona Normal and Industrial School for Negro Girls and taught reading, writing, and home economics skills. Photos from State Library & Archives of Florida
I used the money I had earned with the Afro-American to make this exploration down the coast, and when I got to Daytona I had only one dollar and a half left in cash. I got a little rented house I couldn t pay the rent. The house belonged to a Negro man named John Williams, he rented the house to me for eleven dollars a month. I told him I had no money but he said he would trust me. Photos from State Library & Archives of Florida I had no furniture. I begged dry goods boxes and made benches and stools; begged a basin and other things I needed and in 1904 five little girls here started school.
Photo provided by Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site, Washington, DC Bethune stands with students from her school, the Daytona Educational and Industrial School for Negro Girls in Daytona Beach, Florida, which later merged with the Cookman Institute to become Bethune-Cookman College in 1923.
As a founder and a fighter, her life embodied the mission enter to learn, depart to serve. Dr. Bethune s life exemplified the concept of civic engagement and social responsibility. Photos from State Library & Archives of Florida
Photo from State Library & Archive of Florida Meal preparation at the Daytona Normal and Industrial Institute. Bethune is dressed in black standing third from left. Photo possibly taken inside the original Faith Hall about 1912.
Photo from State Library & Archives of Florida. Mary McLeod Bethune visits with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt in 1937.
Bethune with students at graduation [left] and standing with students in front of the Foundation House. Photos from State Library & Archive of Florida
Photo from State Library & Archive of Florida Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune's office located in the Mary McLeod Bethune Foundation House
Mary McLeod Bethune in front of White Hall, 1940s. She served four presidents: Calvin Coolidge Herbert Hoover Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1935-42 Harry Truman 1951 and 1952 Bethune worked tirelessly to influence legislation affecting African Americans and women and continued to be an important voice for human rights until her death in 1955 at the age of 79. Photo from State Library & Archives of Florida
Photo provided by Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site, Washington, DC Dr. Bethune was active in the fight against racism And was known as the "First Lady of the Struggle.
Photo provided by Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site, Washington, DC Dr. Bethune lunched with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt often in the White House.
Dr. Bethune was the founding member of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal-era Black Cabinet.
Mary McLeod Bethune visits the White House, 1950. When Ms. Bethune entered the White House, a white guard addressed her as "auntie." She stopped and asked him in her most earnest tone, "Which one of my brothers' children are you?" Photo from State Library & Archives of Florida
Photo provided by Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site, Washington, DC Dr. Bethune seated to the left of President Harry S. Truman.
On November 23, 1939, Dr. Bethune spoke on America s Town Meeting of the Air from New York City. Her speech was titled What Does American Democracy Mean to Me? Say It Plain: A Century of Great African American Speeches Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/sayitplain/mmbethune.html
1318 Vermont Avenue, NW Washington, DC The Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site stands as a reminder of Mary McLeod Bethune and the many African American women who have shaped American history. first headquarters of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) from 1943 to 1966.
Photo by Dr. Paula McKenzie, Lincoln Park, Washington, DC 2004 The National Council of Negro Women commissioned artist Robert Berks to create a monument that would capture Dr. Bethune s philosophical support of education. In 1974, the bronze statue was erected in Lincoln Park in Washington, DC and dedicated on the 99 th anniversary of her birth.
Photo by Dr. Paula McKenzie In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of Bethune- Cookman University, Dr. Trudie Kibbe Reed commissioned a 12-foot-tall bronze statue of Dr. Bethune. It was created by sculptor John Lajba and unveiled on the campus January 22, 2005.
I LEAVE YOU LOVE. I LEAVE YOU HOPE. I LEAVE YOU THE CHALLENGE OF DEVELOPING CONFIDENCE IN ONE ANOTHER. I LEAVE YOU A THIRST FOR EDUCATION. I LEAVE YOU RESPECT FOR THE USES OF POWER. I LEAVE YOU FAITH. I LEAVE YOU RACIAL DIGNITY. I LEAVE YOU A DESIRE TO LIVE HARMONIOUSLY WITH YOUR FELLOW MEN. I LEAVE YOU FINALLY A RESPONSIBILITY TO OUR YOUNG PEOPLE. Photo from State Library & Archives of Florida Originally published in Ebony (August 1955). http://africawithin.com/bios/will_and_testament.htm
Photo from State Library & Archives of Florida Mary McLeod Bethune 1875-1955
Dr. Paula McKenzie, Associate Professor, Bethune-Cookman University, created this collection of photos for her students. In 2004, McKenzie was awarded the United Negro College Fund Faculty Development Grant. The bulk of the photographs included in this power-point were taken during a tour of the Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site located in Washington, DC. Others were used with permission from the State Library & Archives of Florida. The power point has been exhibited in several museums.