flacaltenn
Diamond Member
When I was in grade school my best friend's mom gave me a book on Mary McLeod Bethune. Even though it was a success story in many aspects it was too heavy for my heart and soon to be forgotten.
Image my surprise more than a decade later to find myself viewing with my own eyes the house where she lived up the street from Bethune-Cookman College in Daytona Beach, Florida where I ended up for college. I had apparently forgotten that the school she founded initially for girls was located in Daytona.
I wanted to post this in current events because is truly an historical event but some members here cannot be civil when left to their own devices so at least it stands a chance here in Zone 1 of the Race and Racism forum.
Statue of Black Educator Replaces Confederate General in U.S. Capitol
I grew up in Daytona Beach. Maybe you saw me playing guitar at the boardwalk with some friends. LOL, I looked like an Apache in those days.
It's a great story. And a good school. I had a chance to moonlight as a recruiter for a couple of Silcon Valley companies and looked into recruiting there to get a free trip home after recruiting at U of Fla. But in those days, there was no electronics or electrical engineering curriculum.
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