Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site

return back to N.C. and they never got back together again. On October 3rd, 1904 Bethune opened the doors to the Daytona Normal and Industrial Institute for Negro Girls. Her rent was 11 dollars a month and she would charge the young ladies fifty cents a week for tuition. The local black community and church fully supported Bethune by taking up collections and selling chicken dinners to support the school food bill. Bethune would even sell homemade pies and ice-cream to the railroad workers. Broadwater

Bethune relocated to Daytona Beach after the readings of Brooker T. Washington inspired her to go with her vision and open her own school. Many people tried to discourage her to not to go to Daytona because the black laborers in the area lived in poverty much like slavery and the Ku Klux Klan would commit violent acts against anyone who tried to better African Americans. Her husband Albertus Bethune did not agree with her dreams and left her to return back to N.C. and they never got back together

leader, there had to be a lot of Challenging of the Process in order to make change. During a time when it was not the norm to have separate from your spouse. Bethune and her husband Albertus did not agree with her dreams so he left her to return back to N.C. and they never got back together again. In 1904 with $1.50 and her small son Bethune relocated to Daytona Beach after reading about what Brooker T. Washington was doing pertaining to education of blacks she was inspired to open her own school