Hosts Nicole Franklin and Bryant Monteilh remember American educator Mary Jane McLeod Bethune. 

Born on July 10, 1875 in Mayesville, South Carolina, to parents who had been enslaved, Bethune attended college hoping to become a missionary in Africa.  

She went on to have a career as an educator, stateswoman, philanthropist, humanitarian, womanist and civil rights activist. Bethune is the founder of the National Council for Negro Women, as well as the first Black Hospital in Daytona, Florida.

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