In 1904, Mary McLeod Bethune opened the Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls with $1.50 and five students. Today the school offers 35 bachelor degree programs. Mehr erfahren.
Author Zora Neale Hurston, famous for her 1937 novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God,” wrote a total of 50 short stories, plays and essays, as well as four novels. Mehr erfahren.
Howard Thurman was the first black dean at Boston University and the first dean of Rankin Chapel at Howard University. Thurman’s book “Jesus and the Disinherited” was influential to MLK. Mehr erfahren.