Booker T. Washington
I was the first white player in the M.E.A.C. and I played for coach McClairen at Bethune Cookman College 1980-1985 and at that time He had 608 wins . Thomas W. Reilly Bethune Cookman '85
1904. John Henry Williams (1871 - 1944) a prosperous carpenter from Bucks Horry, SC. and his wife Alice Smith Williams (1879-1968) were newlyweds when they assisted Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune ( 1875-1955) in establishing the renowned Bethune Cookman College here in Daytona Beach. Due to an initial lack of space, yet a burning in her heart, Mrs. Williams held the first classes in her own vast mansion. Thus history would forever give credit to the Williamses for starting Bethune Cookman College.
John Henry Williams ( 1871- 1944) a prosperous carpenter from Bucks Horry, SC. and his wife Alice Smith Williams (1879-1968) were newlyweds when they assisted Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune ( 1875-1955) in establishing the renowned Bethune Cookman College here in Daytona Beach. Due to an initial lack of space, yet a burning in her heart, Mrs. Williams held the first classes in her own vast mansion . Thus history would forever give credit to the Williamses for starting Bethune Cookman College.
John Henry Williams ( 1871 - 1944) a prosperous carpenter from Bucks Horry, SC. and his wife Alice Smith Williams (1879-1968) were newlyweds when they assisted Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune ( 1875-1955) in establishing the renowned Bethune Cookman College here in Daytona Beach. It began as a College for Young Black Women, Bethune serving as president. Due to an initial lack of space, yet a burning in her heart, Mrs. Williams held the first classes in her own vast mansion. Thus history would forever give credit to the Williamses for starting Bethune Cookman College.
John Henry Williams (1871 - 1944) a prosperous carpenter from Bucks Horry, SC. and his wife Alice Smith Williams (1879-1968) were newlyweds when they assisted Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune ( 1875-1955) in establishing the renowned Bethune Cookman College here in Daytona Beach. Due to an initial lack of space, yet a burning in her heart, Mrs. Williams held the first classes in her own vast mansion . Thus history would forever give credit to the Williamses for starting Bethune Cookeman College.
At Literary and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls there were six students.Later as it grew it merged with a school for African American Boys and became Bethune-Cookman College.
Mary McLeod Bethune felt the local negro young ladies needed a special institution to be educated. The general purpose was to insure a fruitful future in a world closed to blacks. So in a church meeting at Allen AME one evening she appealed to local black businessmen. John Henry Williams ( 1871- 1944) a prosperous carpenter from Bucks Horry, SC. and his wife Alice Smith Williams (1879-1968) were newlyweds when they assisted Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune ( 1875-1955) in establishing the renowned Bethune Cookman College here in Daytona Beach. Due to an initial lack of space, yet a burning in her heart, Mrs. Williams held the first classes in her own vast mansion. Thus history would forever give credit to the Williamses for starting Bethune Cookeman College.
Mary McLeod Bethune was an African American educator and leader in civil rights. She established a private school for African Americans that would go on to become Bethune-Cookman University. Under her advisory role to President Franklin D. Roosevelt she became known as The First Lady of the Struggle.
she is famous because she was the first African American to have there own college
Trinity Mission School, in South Carolina, is the first school she herself attended, as a child; she first taught at this same school after attending a training school for Christian women, the Scotia Seminary, in North Carolina. She later taught at Haines Normal and Industrial in Georgia, and several other schools, before going to Palatka, Florida, to start a missionary school called Literary and Industrial Training School for Girls there. She then founded her own Daytona Normal and Industrial School in Daytona, Florida, which much later became known as Bethune-Cookman College.
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