140th birthday of Mary McLeod Bethune

(Born 10 July 1875, Mayesville, South Carolina, US)

Versatile human rights campaigner and educator who sets up a school for the education of African American children in Florida (1904) that has now become Bethune-Cookman University

(Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Florida)

Twitter@HerbertEkweEkwe