Description:
The biography of a pioneering advocate for literacy and adult education in South Carolina
Brief description: Mary Macdonald Ogden is a guardian ad litem and a freelance writer in Asheville, North Carolina. She has a bachelor�s degree in history from Presbyterian College and doctorate in history from the University of South Carolina.
Review Quotes: �Present debates about public education and race in American society make Ogden�s study of Lou Gray not only fascinating but important. Gray�s work as South Carolina�s Supervisor of Adult Education unfolds as the story of a savvy single woman �working the system� during days of deep poverty, Jim Crow, and ever lurking violence.�� Erskine Clarke, author of Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic