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Daytona Beach might get a visit from the Mary McLeod Bethune sculpture


DAYTONA BEACH  About four years after setting out on the journey to create a sculpture of Mary McLeod Bethune that would one day stand in the U.S. Capitol s Statuary Hall, the marble likeness of the trailblazing educator and civil rights activist is just a few weeks away from completion.
Master sculptor Nilda Comas has been toiling in her artists studio in the Italian hamlet of Pietrasanta, first creating smaller clay and plaster models in preparation for chiseling out a statue of Bethune from a 4-ton block of marble.
Now Comas is putting the finishing touches on the 11-foot-tall white marble statue of the woman who created a school for girls in Daytona Beach in 1904 that evolved into Bethune-Cookman University. ....

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Sculptor Nilda Comas Captures Mary McLeod Bethune's Essence In Marble For U.S. National Statuary Hall - Central Florida News


Monday, January 25, 2021
by Talia Blake (WMFE)
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Nilda Comas was chosen from 1600 sculptors to create the Mary McLeod Bethune statue for the U.S. National Statuary Hall. (photo: Talia Blake/WMFE)
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Mary McLeod Bethune will be the first African American Woman to represent a state in the U.S. National Statuary Hall in Washington D.C. Nilda Comas was chosen from 1600 sculptors to create the statue.  ....

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Daytona's most famous resident, Mary McLeod Bethune, lived in Midtown


Born to former slaves, Mary McLeod Bethune was Midtown s beacon and much more
This short story captures the life of Mary McLeod Bethune, Daytona Beach s most famous citizen, who founded Bethune-Cookman University in Midtown.
Staff Report, The Daytona Beach News-Journal
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5:54 pm UTC Jan. 3, 2021
Mary McLeod Bethune was born on a South Carolina farm in 1875, the 15th child of former slaves.
Former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt, right, presents Mary McLeod Bethune with an honorary doctorate in this March 1953 photo.Photo provided
That humble beginning did not deter her. Bethune became a renowned educator. With $1.50 as capital, she founded what is now Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach on the site of a former dump in the impoverished Midtown neighborhood. ....

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