Mary McLeod Bethune: Voice of Black Hope

by Milton Meltzer

Book Overview

When Mary McLeod was a girl in rural South Carolina, no school would accept her as a student, because she was black. But one day, a woman from the city came to open a mission school. "It changed my... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140322191
• ISBN13: 9780140322194
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Puffin Books
• Length: 57 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.1" x 7.8"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

Well written story of great inspiration

I read this book 2 years ago while getting my teaching credential. I have since put the book in my 4th/5th classroom library, yet it is never there. My students read this story of a hard working single mother and educator constantly. They know that Mary McLeod is one of my heros and they want to read why. I teach in school with little ethnic diversity, and Mary McLeod's story of learning and teaching and fighting for equality has been eye opening. None of my parents or students had heard of Mary McLeod before this year, but this wonderful book of her life has been a huge inspirational hit with the 9 and 10 year olds I teach and their parents.