Remembering Civil Rights activist, Mary McLeod Bethune
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Remembering Civil Rights activist, Mary McLeod Bethune

Mary McLeod Bethune is best known for founding the Bethune-Cookman College, a HBCU in Daytona, but also being a standout civil right activist. FLORIDA TODAY Editor Tim Walters joined FOX 35's Garrett Wymer on Fox 35 News+ to discuss the legacy of Bethune, as she founded the National Council of Negro Women in 1935, was appointed as a national advisor for Franklin D. Roosevelt and worked to create the Federal Council on Colored Affairs.