Mary Bethune: Working Toward a More Just World
A New Commentary on Luke 23:34a
“A white Daytona resident threatened Bethune’s students with a rifle. Mary worked to make an ally of him. She treated him with courtesy and developed such good with with him that he began to protect ‘the children,’ saying ‘If anybody bothers old Mary, I will protect her with my life.’”
-Texas Adams, As I Recollect
Mary McLeod Bethune was born of illiter…
