Mary McLeod Bethune was born in Maysville, South Carolina in 1875. Mary McLeod Bethune is famous because she built a school for girls. When one of her students was treated badly in a hospital, she built a hospital in her school. In 1895 she graduated from the Moody Bible Institute, there she was the only black student. She heard about a city in Florida named Daytona where there was no school at all. In 1904 she built a school for young black women there. She was also an advisor to four presidents.