Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955) is best known for her tenure as president of Bethune Cookman College (now University), the co-ed institution that grew from her one-room school for girls, founded in 1904.  She is also highly regarded for her role as advisor to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and director of the National Youth Administration’s Office of Negro Affairs, as well as for her many civic functions.  This book expands our understanding of the importance of Bethune’s efforts as founder of a school whose mission was to teach Black girls to “earn a living” in early twentieth-century America.