Title: The riches of Oseola McCarty
Description: 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.
Subjects: Philanthropists, History, Scholarships, University of Southern Mississippi, Juvenile literature, Women benefactors, Laundresses, African American women, Benefactors, African Americans, Biography, Women, African americans, biography, juvenile literature, Blacks, biography, Women, biography
Places: Mississippi, Hattiesburg (Miss.), Mississippi Hattiesburg, Hattiesburg
People: Oseola McCarty
Time periods: 20th century