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With girls from the Literary and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls in Daytona, circa 1905.

Mary Jane McLeod Bethune (born Mary Jane McLeod; July 10, 1875 – May 18, 1955) was an American educator, stateswoman, philanthropist, humanitarian, womanist, and civil rights activist. Bethune founded the National Council for Negro Women in 1935, established the organization’s flagship journal Aframerican Women’s Journal, and resided as president or leader for a myriad African American women’s organizations including the National Association for Colored Women and the National Youth Administration’s Negro Division. She also was appointed as a national adviser to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, whom she worked with to create the Federal Council on Colored Affairs, also known as the Black Cabinet.

Her private school for African American girls, as seen in this image, became Bethune-Cookman University in 1923 after merging with the Cookman Institute of Jacksonville, Florida, which had been founded in 1872.

Image license: Florida State Archives Photographic Collection. Public Domain