Literary and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls in Daytona

In October 1904, Mary McLeod Bethune founded the Literary and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls in Daytona, with only $1.50. While she initially had only six students, within a year McLeod was teaching more than 30 girls at the school. Over the years, the training institute evolved into a high school and then into a college, making Bethune the only woman founder of a historically Black college/university (HBCU).