A Blue-Collar Worker Who Never Finished School Gave $150,000 So Others Could
In 1995, an 87-year-old woman from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, sat down with a bank officer to decide what she wanted to do with her life savings. Her name was Oseola McCarty, and she had earned nearly every dollar washing and ironing other people’s clothes. She had never finished elementary school, never held a high-paying job, and … Read more