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In 1904 Bethune opened the Daytona Normal and Industrial Institute, a girls' school patterned on Scotia Seminary. Possessing canny business skills, she quickly secured funding from influential whites and expanded the school to meet the needs of the local black community. In 1907 she established the Tomoka Mission, a sort of school extension, in the local turpentine camps. The school built a hospital in 1911 and brought black and white visitors and celebrities to the school. Like Tuskegee Institute, the school had its own farm that both supplied the school with food and provided agricultural training. By 1923 the school had a twenty-five-member faculty and a student body of three hundred girls. In that year Bethune merged the school with the Cookman Institute of Jacksonville, making it coeducational. In 1929 a postsecondary division, known as Bethune-Cookman College, was added. Despite the Depression, Bethune continued to have success in soliciting funding for the...
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