Mrs. Mary McLeod ... school expanded to include 250 students just two years later. The school gained in popularity and eventually merged with the Cookman Institute for Men in Jacksonville to form ...

Mary McLeod Bethune, pictured in the 1920s, when her school became a co-ed institution and she became the president of the National Association of Colored Women. Chicago History Museum / Getty ...

The scholars inside Ms. McKenzie's fifth-grade classroom at Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Elementary School in Riviera Beach may not know it, but they could help reshape the future. Dr. Roger Duncan III ...