A brief biography of Oseola McCarty, a hard-working washer woman who, without a formal education herself, donated a portion of her life savings to the University of Southern Mississippi to endow a scholarship fund for needy students.
how one woman made good on her extraordinary pact to send a classroom of first graders to college
Brown, Oral Lee
2005
Presents the story of Oral Lee Brown who promised to finance the college education of twenty-three first-grade students in 1987, made good on that promise, and continued to support dozens of children in the same manner afterwards.
