Mary Jane McLeod Bethune
Mary Jane McLeod Bethune was born on July 10, 1875 to enslaved parents. I turn to her story for inspiration often. Most know of her work of starting a school in 1904(which became Bethune-Cookman College) by selling sweet potato pies door-to-door. She was president of the college from 1923 to 1942, and from 1946 to 1947. …