The Resume

(July 10, 1875-May 18, 1955)
Born in Mayesville, South Carolina
Founded the Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls (1904)
Merged with the Cookman Institute of Jacksonville, Florida and became a co-ed high school (1923)
Became a junior college and renamed the Bethune-Cookman College (1931)
Became a 4-year college in 1941 (located in Daytona Beach)
College president from 1923-42 and 1946-47
Member of Franklin D. Roosevelt's Black Cabinet
Awarded the NAACP Spingarn Medal (1935)
Died of a heart attack in Daytona Beach at age 79

Why she might be annoying:

She was one of 17 children.
She wanted to become a missionary in Africa but was told black missionaries were not needed.
When she started her all girls school, it consisted of six students: five girls and her son.
She was constantly asking for donations to keep her school afloat.
She didn't seek contributions from whites until a visit from Booker T. Washington convinced her that the practice was not only OK but a real way to educate white America.
Every time she saw a drunk black man, she would sermonize him about 'shaping up.'
As an able-bodied woman, she carried a cane only for 'swank.'

Why she might not be annoying:

She was the daughter of former slaves.
Married in 1898, her husband up and left her nine years later without divorcing her.
Her school had one of the highest academic rates of all black schools in Florida and rivaled most white schools.
While she was helping to get blacks registered to vote, the KKK tried to dissuade her (without success).
When one Daytona resident threatened her pupils with a rifle, she had a talk with him and he did a 180, offering to protect them.
She became a close friend of Eleanor Roosevelt.
Her goal in life was to educate both whites and blacks about the struggles and accomplishments of black people, the need for unity and the foolishness of segregation.
In 1973 she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.

Credit: Scar Tactics & Black Chic

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• BC/Black Chic's Profiles [Series 08]
• Black Heavyweights
• Black Heritage Commemorative Stamp Series (Ranked: 1985)
• Black Women Loved by Whites
• Celebrities Born on the Same Date [July] (Ranked: 7101875)
• Civil Rights Activists
• Ebony Magazine's 10 Most Unforgettable Black Women [1990]
• Ebony Magazine's 100 Most Fascinating Black Women of the 20th Century [March 1999]
• I am on a U.S. Postage Stamp [A-C]
• I Attended Marian Anderson’s Lincoln Memorial Concert [April 9, 1939]
• I Died in 1955 (Ranked: 79)
• Ladies Home Journal's 100 Most Important Women of the 20th Century
• Long Names
• Look at Me, I Don't Have a Neck
• Look at Me, I'm at the Podium
• Look at Me, I'm Preachin'
• Look at My Bling Bling
• Look at My Flowers
• National Women's Hall of Fame (Ranked: 1973)
• People with John or Mary in their Names
• Profiles 25251-25500 (Ranked: 25330)
• Scar Tactics' Profiles [Series 08]
• Silver Foxes [Gray and Don't Care]
• Spingarn Medal Winners (Ranked: 1935)
• Teachers
• Teetotalers
• This Is Your Life Honorees [A-K]
• Time’s 100 Women of the Year [1920-2020] (Ranked: 1934)

Year In Review:

For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2023, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 13 Votes: 46.15% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 12 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 7 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 23 Votes: 43.48% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 11 Votes: 72.73% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 56 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 30 Votes: 36.67% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 27 Votes: 62.96% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 113 Votes: 57.52% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 37 Votes: 62.16% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 49 Votes: 53.06% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 91 Votes: 45.05% Annoying