Daytona State College recognizes segregation-era Black president
DAYTONA BEACH — In 1958, it was time for Tyrone Presley to go to college. His older sister was already enrolled at Bethune-Cookman College, the private Daytona Beach school serving Black students in a time of racial segregation. Florida's state universities wouldn't begin admitting their first Black students until four years later. But a new alternative arrived just in time. Gov. LeRoy Collins and the Legislature in 1957 agreed on a plan to greatly expand the state's community college system from five schools to 28, with six to be established that year, including one in Daytona Beach. Thes...
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