A Passionate Mind in Relentless PursuitBy: Noliwe Rooks Series: Significations An intimate and searching account of the life and legacy of one of Americas towering educators, a woman who dared to center the progress of Black women and girls in the larger struggle for political and social liberation When Mary McLeod Bethune died, tributes in newspapers around the country said the same thing: she should be on the Mount Rushmore of Black American achievement. Indeed, Bethune is the only Black