Original sentence: Roundtree, Dovey Johnson, "Recruited by Mary McLeod Bethune," in World War II -- Hometown and Home Front Heroes: Life Experience Stories from the Carolinas' Piedmont, edited by Margaret Bigger.Though Rachel Graham had only a third-grade education, she wielded great influence in Charlotte's black community, and through her involvement in the colored women's club movement she formed a friendship with Mary McLeod Bethune, who at that time traveled extensively through the South as head of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, the precusor to the National Council of Negro Women
Edited sentence: Roundtree, Dovey Johnson, "Recruited by Mary McLeod Bethune," in World War II—Hometown and Home Front Heroes: Life Experience Stories from the Carolinas' Piedmont, edited by Margaret Bigger.Though Rachel Graham had only a third-grade education, she wielded great influence in Charlotte's black community, and through her involvement in the colored women's club movement she formed a friendship with Mary McLeod Bethune, who at that time traveled extensively through the South as head of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, the precursor to the National Council of Negro Women