Use of John Johnson’s Life Story in Conjunction with Other Black Entrepreneurs as Role Models for Potential Black Businessmen
Carol L. Cook
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Appendix C
Business magnate James M. Gamble contributed most of the money required for the construction of one of the Daytona Institute’s first buildings. Much of the funding for the school came from wealthy northerners such as Gamble who vacationed in Florida during the winter.
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The internationally acclaimed poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar served as an inspiring example of black achievement to the students at Bethune’s school.
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In 1936, Bethune was appointed director of the National Youth Administration’s Division of Negro Affairs and thus became the first black woman to be placed in charge of a federal agency. She is shown here with members of other New Deal agencies.
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