Mary McLeod Bethune

A tribute to a Civil Rights legend from South Carolina and what she accomplished

In recognition of African American History Month, my church has a speaker each Sunday talk about a remarkable person. I was the speaker this week and chose Mary McLeod Bethune. Much of my information came from this new book by Brown University’s Noliwe Rooks, who I had the honor meeting and hearing at the Roosevelt Reading Festival in Hyde Park, New Yor…