“If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.”

About Mary McLeod Bethune

Educator • American

Mary McLeod Bethune was a pioneering American educator, civil rights leader, and government official. She founded the Daytona Normal and Industrial Institute for Negro Girls, which later became Bethune-Cookman...