Daytona Beach Mayor Derrick Henry speaks to guests gathered in front of the historic Mary McLeod Bethune Home on the Bethune-Cookman University campus on Thursday, July 10, 2025, the 150th ...

DAYTONA BEACH − The nightcap of the Mary McLeod Bethune birthday celebration doubleheader brought several dozen people together around her 13-foot-tall bronze statue at the Riverfront Esplanade ...

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — History was made in Daytona Beach Thursday. The community came together to celebrate the 150th birthday of Mary McLeod Bethune, a teacher and leader in civil rights.

Daytona Beach Mayor Derrick Henry says he is inspired by Bethune-Cookman University founder and civil rights giant Mary McLeod Bethune, at a July 10, 2025, celebration of the 150th anniversary of ...

DAYTONA BEACH — Hoping to start eradicating the blight that has taken root in the Midtown neighborhood over the past half-century, the city is buying seven properties along Mary McLeod Bethune ...

On October 3, 1904, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune opened a training school in Daytona Beach, Florida with “$1.50, faith in God and five little girls" that would go on to become Bethune-Cookman University.

The parade will begin at 6 p.m. at Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Boulevard and travel south on Beach Street to Jackie Robinson Parkway, the city said.

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Educator and political leader Mary McLeod Bethune died at the age of 80 on May 18, 1955, in Daytona Beach, Florida. Born in Mayesville, South Carolina, in 1875, Bethune was one of the last of ...