Mary McLeod Bethune
by Eloise Greenfield
Picture book · ages 6–9 · grades 1–4 · 620L · 1994
Why we'd hand it over
Greenfield's lyrical prose and Jan Spivey Gilchrist's dignified illustrations make this the gentlest entry to Jim Crow history and institutional racism for early readers — less didactic than most biographical picture books, more emotionally true.