Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune (jan 1, 1936 – jan 1, 1944)

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became the highest ranking African American woman in government when President Franklin Roosevelt named her director of Negro Affairs of the National Youth Administration, which oversaw the training of tens of thousands of black youth. She was the only female member of President Roosevelt’s influential “Black Cabinet.” She leveraged her close friendship with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt to lobby for integrating the Civilian Pilot Training Program and to bring the Program to the campuses of historically Black colleges and universities, which led to graduating some of the first black pilots in the country.
"My philosophy of education is the basic principle upon which my life has been built - that is the three-fold training of head, hand, heart."

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