This biographical miniseries, based on the best seller by C. David Heymann, starts when Jackie Kennedy was working after college; and spans her life through the Presidency of John F. Kennedy and her marriage to Aristotle Onassis after the assassination of President Kennedy.

Inspired by the accomplishments of Mary McCleod Bethune, who made and sold so many sweet potato pies that, with her earnings, she established many schools for the under-privileged.