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==Later Life==

==Later Life==

Mary and her son moved to a cabin located on a dump site. She opened it as a school in 1904. It soon became known as the Daytona Normal and Industrial School for Negro Girls. Not only was reading and writing taught there, but home economic skills were also taught at this school. In 1923, the school merged with Cookman Institute. It became known as the Bethune-Cookman Institute and is still located on Daytona Beach today. In May of 1955, Mary McLeod Bethune died. She was recognized, thirty years later, as the most influential Afro-American woman.

Mary and her son moved to a cabin located on a dump site. She opened it as a school in 1904. It soon became known as the Daytona Normal and Industrial School for Negro Girls. Not only was reading and writing taught there, but home economic skills were also taught at this school. In 1923, the school merged with Cookman Institute. It became known as the Bethune-Cookman Institute and is still located on Daytona Beach today. In May of 1955, Mary McLeod Bethune died. She was recognized, thirty years later, as the most influential African American woman.

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