“You may come from a poor family, you may come from a rural family, you may be first-generation college-educated, but once you are college-educated, the most important thing about you, in many ways, is that you’re a college graduate and you are transformed.”
a) To acknowledge an important figure in education.
b) To compare her achievements with those of Bethune.
c) To introduce the topic of college education.
d) To highlight the achievements of the National Council of Negro Women.