In this second installment of the “Joe Joe in the City” series, the serious-minded and likeable Joe Joe faces his peers who ridicule him for dreaming of attending college. When searching for answers, Joe Joe discovers a book about Mary McLeod Bethune, an influential African American woman who overcame poverty and the lack of a formal education at an early age to become the founder of a college and a government worker for the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration. Judson Press.