Mary McLeod Bethune

Interviewee

• Bill Dudley, Florida Humanities Council
• Ernest Ponder
• Keturah Creel
• David Colburn
• Joseph Taylor
• Mary McLeod Bethune

Files

Publication Date

6-1-1996

Abstract

In 1996 Bill Dudley profiled Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955), African-American civil rights leader and educator and founder of Bethune-Cookman College (later named Bethune-Cookman University) in Daytona Beach, Florida. Ernest Ponder, Keturah Creel, David Colburn and Joseph Taylor contribute with clips of Mary McLeod Bethune speaking.

Keywords

Bethune–Cookman University, Race relations, African Americans, College students, Education, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano) Roosevelt (1882-1945), Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)

Extent

00:05:32; 5 page transcript

Subject: geographic

Volusia County (Fla.); Daytona Beach (Fla.)

Language

English

Digital Date

2026

Media Type

Audio recordings

Format

Digital Only

Identifier

fhc_audio-1003

Creative Commons

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.

Recommended Citation

Dudley, Bill; Ponder, Ernest; Creel, Keturah; Colburn, David; Taylor, Joseph; and Bethune, Mary McLeod, "Mary McLeod Bethune" (1996). Florida Humanities Audio Archive. 4.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/fhc_audio/4