Social Justice
Civil Rights Activist
About This Innovation
1924 President of NCNW; co-founder with William Trent & Frederick D. Patterson of the United Negro Fund in 1944; one of the earliest Black female activists who helped lay the foundation to the modern civil rights movement; 1904 founded Daytona Beach Literary & Industrial Institute for Negro Girls; school merged with Cookman Institute in 1926 & became Bethune-Cookman College (now University) in 1929; co-owner of a Daytona Beach resort that allowed Blacks to access the beach; co-founder Central Life Insurance Company of Tampa; 1911 founded the 1st Black hospital & nursing program in Daytona; organized the 1st officer candidate schools for Black women; founded the Delinquent Home for Colored Girls in Ocala Forida; was Director of Afro-American Life Insurance Company
The Invention
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Civil Rights Activist
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