11 Facts About Mary Anne MacLeod

1. Mary Anne MacLeod decided then that the only difference between white and colored people was the ability to read and write.

2. In 1991, Mary Anne MacLeod was assaulted by a 16-year-old kid in Queens, New York.

3. Mary Anne MacLeod arrived in America with just $50, Mary Anne MacLeod lived with her older sister Christina Matheson on Long Island and worked as a family servant for at least four years.

4. Mary Anne MacLeod learned English as a second language, and grew up speaking Gaelic.

5. Mary Anne MacLeod was the youngest of 10 children, born in the outskirts of Stornoway, Scotland, in the Outer Hebrides, on the Isle of Lewis, in the village of Tong, according to Fortune.

6. Mary Anne MacLeod's sustained broken ribs, facial bruises, several fractures, a brain hemorrhage, and permanent damage to her sight and hearing.

7. Mary Anne MacLeod's was thrown onto a sidewalk after her purse with $14 in it was taken.

8. Mary Anne MacLeod's acted as a volunteer in a hospital and was involved in school activities and charities.

9. Mary Anne MacLeod's was generally a housewife but sometimes helped with her husband's real estate business, such as collecting coins from laundry machines in family-owned apartment buildings.

10. Mary Anne MacLeod was born in a pebbledash croft house owned by her father since 1895 in Tong on the Isle of Lewis.

11. Mary Anne MacLeod's raised five children with her husband and engaged in philanthropic activities in the New York area.