What educator was instrumental in making sure black children received an education the South following Civil War?

Mary McLeod Bethune is a prominent example of an educator instrumental in ensuring Black children received an education in the South following the Civil War. While she didn't start her work immediately after the war, her life's work spanned the crucial decades of establishing schools and educational opportunities for African Americans in the segregated South. She founded the Daytona Normal and Industrial Institute for Negro Girls (later Bethune-Cookman University), which provided a crucial educational pathway for many Black students.