

She was president of the college from 1923 to 1942, and from 1946 to 1947. She maintained high standards and promoted the school with tourists and donors to demonstrate what educated African Americans could do. It later merged with a private institute for African American boys and was known as the Bethune-Cookman School. She started a school for African American girls in Daytona Beach, Florida. She took an early interest in becoming educated with the help of benefactors, Bethune attended college hoping to become a missionary in Africa. īorn in Mayesville, South Carolina, to parents who had been slaves, she started working in fields with her family at age five. She was known as "The First Lady of The Struggle" because of her commitment to promote better lives for African Americans. For her lifetime of activism, she was deemed "acknowledged First Lady of Negro America" by Ebony magazine in July 1949 and was known by the Black Press as the "Female Booker T. She was the sole African American woman officially a part of the US delegation that created the United Nations charter, and she held a leadership position for the American Women's Voluntary Services founded by Alice Throckmorton McLean. It later continued to develop as Bethune-Cookman University. She is well-known for starting a private school for African-American students in Daytona Beach, Florida. Roosevelt, whom she worked with to create the Federal Council on Colored Affairs, also known as the Black Cabinet.

She also was appointed as a national advisor to president Franklin D. Bethune founded the National Council of Negro Women in 1935, established the organization's flagship journal Aframerican Women's Journal, and presided as president or leader for a myriad of African American women's organizations including the National Association for Colored Women and the National Youth Administration's Negro Division. Becht faces charges of fleeing or attempting to elude law enforcement and driving with a suspended license.Mary Jane McLeod Bethune ( née McLeod J– ) was an American educator, philanthropist, humanitarian, womanist, and civil rights activist. The man can then be heard explaining that he did not want his car taken from him. “I know, you could have killed 15 people within the last couple of minutes,” Chitwood is heard saying in response on the video. “This was for the dumbest reason of all time, too,” Becht can be heard saying in the bodycam video. Deputies said Becht confessed and apologized as he was handcuffed. Deputies with their guns drawn also approach the car and they, along with the sheriff, guide the man to the ground.
#TAG OFFICE DAYTONA BEACH DRIVER#
In body camera video, the sheriff is seen approaching the car in shorts and a T-shirt and asking the driver to get out of the vehicle. In the video, Chitwood arrives on the scene in an unmarked vehicle, which he uses to block in the Mercedes. The video shows the Mercedes get boxed in by traffic at the intersection of Nova and Beville roads. Video from the helicopter shows the car swerving through traffic and running at least one red light. The sheriff’s office helicopter followed the Mercedes. Deputies said Becht drove down Catalina Boulevard and got onto Interstate 4. Body camera video shows the exchange between Becht and the deputy and the driver appears to agree to pull over however, as the deputy heads back to his cruiser, the Mercedes takes off. According to a news release, the deputy asked Becht to pull over into a nearby parking lot so that they would not block traffic. Investigators said Becht was driving with a black Mercedes with a temporary tag that was obscured by a cover plate. According to the sheriff’s office, a deputy tried to pull over Michael Becht, 23, at the intersection of Catalina and Howland boulevards in Deltona around 8 p.m. A man who drove away from a traffic stop in Deltona was arrested Thursday in Daytona Beach with the help of Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood, who was off duty at the time, according to deputies.
