Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series

  Rooks,  Noliwe :  A  Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit: The Vision of Mary McLeod Bethune 2024   Twelve of us met in February to discuss  Noliwe  Rooks’ biography of Mary McCleod Bethune titled A Passionate Mind in Relen t less P ursuit.  Bethune was born in South Carolina in 1875 and was from a large family. Her parents had been enslaved. Bethune was the first in her family to  go  to school. In our book  discussion, a t least four of the women around the table had never heard of Mary McLeod Bethune. Those of us who had heard of her , mostly only knew about her  establishing  a school for girls in  Daytona,  Florida  in 1904,  which later became  Bethune-Cookman   University.      Barb  started us off, saying, “ Thank you for what I should have learned in school .”   Marian  replied, “ I learned so much. I knew that she started  a school  fo...