USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Daytona Beach, Florida, U.S. 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. She is well-known for starting a private school for African-American students in Daytona Beach, Florida.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Bethunes moved to Palatka, Florida, where Mary worked at the Presbyterian Church and also sold insurance. In 1904, her marriage ended, and determined to support her son, Bethune opened a boarding school, the Daytona Beach Literary and Industrial School for Training Negro Girls.

Detailed explanation-3: -Born Mary Jane McLeod on July 10, 1875 in Mayesville, South Carolina, the fifteenth of seventeen children, she had the unusual opportunity to attend school and receive an education not common among African Americans following the Civil War.

Detailed explanation-4: -Recognizing the health disparities and lack of medical treatment available to African Americans in Daytona Beach, she also founded the Mary McLeod Hospital and Training School for Nurses, which at the time was the only school of its kind that served African American women on the east coast.

Detailed explanation-5: -In 1904 Bethune moved to the east coast of Florida, where a large African American population had grown up at the time of the construction of the Florida East Coast Railway, and in Daytona Beach, in October, she opened a school of her own, the Daytona Normal and Industrial Institute for Negro Girls.