Mary Jane McLeod Bethune is an American educator, politician, philanthropist, humanitarian, woman and civil rights activist. Bethune founded the National Council of Black Women in 1935, founded the foundation's flagship magazine, the Aframerican Women Magazine, and served as president or leader of numerous African American women's organizations. , including the National Association of Black Women and the Department of Black. of the National Youth Administration. She was also appointed national adviser to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, with whom she worked to form the Federal Council on Black Affairs, also known as the Black Cabinet. She is best known for establishing a private school for African American students in Daytona Beach, Florida; it then evolved into Bethune-Cookman College.
Founder of Bethune-Cookman University, one of the country's first black-serving universities. Her supporters dubbed to her as"The First Lady of the Struggle".
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