Officials said two workers were on the roof of Mary McLeod Bethune Elementary-Middle School Wednesday morning when they fell through a vent and to the basement – a fall of roughly 30 feet.

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 ...

Born Mary Jane McLeod, Bethune was the 15th of 17 children. She grew up on a farm in South Carolina and began working in the fields when she was 5. The only child in her family to be educated, she ...

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 ...