Mary Madison shares tales from Suwannee River Junior College

Hailey Heseltine ECB Publishing, Inc. Growing up during segregation, Mary Madison's mother and grandmother told her that she needed an education to go anywhere. When she heard those words, she was a Monticello teen attending Howard Academy. Suwannee River Junior College opened in the neighboring Madison County while she was still in high school, and with it a world of opportunity for her and many others in her community. As the eldest of many children, she was born in Madison County and move