This National Historic Landmark is the home of Bethune-Cookman University founder and accomplished educator, activist and visionary.
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Join us as we reverence the great work of Educator and political leader Mary McLeod Bethune, who died at the age of seventy-nine on May 18, 1955, in Daytona Beach, FL.
Photo Credit: State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory
Cumberland Willis Posey, Jr., owner of the Homestead Grays Negro League team, with Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune in the parlor of the headquarters of the NCNW.
“The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth.” - MMB