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Bethune-Cookman College

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Bethune-Cookman College, at Daytona Beach, Fla.; United Methodist; coeducational. Named for its founder and first president, Mary McCleod Bethune Bethune, Mary McLeod (bəthyn`), 1875–1955, American educator, b.
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, the school was formed as a result of a merger (1923) of the Daytona Normal and Industrial Institute for Girls (founded 1904) and the Cookman Institute (founded 1872). It became a four-year college in 1941. Founded primarily for African Americans, it is open to all qualified students.


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John Paul McGee, from Bethune-Cookman College and taught by Beverly Serra-Brooks, NCTM, won the $1,000 first place prize in the Annual James A.
Washington's Tuskegee Institute and the institution that would become Bethune-Cookman College.
In Florida the early colleges were state and/or religiously supported: University of Florida, 1853, for men; Florida State University, 1857, for women; Bethune-Cookman College, 1872, for women, Florida Memorial College, 1879; Stetson University, 1883; Florida A&M University, 1887, for men and women; and the University of Miami, 1925.
 
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