Martha Berry, a Woman of Courageous Spirit and Bold Dreams

Martha Berry's story — a determined Southern woman who built schools for Appalachian children with no resources and eventually Henry Ford's backing — is genuinely compelling, and Blackburn tells it with the skill of a practiced biographer. The faith-motivated service angle makes this a natural fit for character education and homeschool curricula. The 1986 original and 1992 reissue mean the scholarship is aging, and you will need to find it used, but the story itself does not date.