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One of seventeen children of parents freed from slavery after the Civil War, Bethune was born on a farm near Mayesville, South Carolina. Her family recognized early her aptitude for scholarship and singing. She excelled at the mission school she attended as a child. In 1888 she was sent to Scotia Seminary (later Barber- Scotia College), a Presbyterian school for black girls in Concord, North Carolina. The interracial faculty at that school emphasized religion and industrial education. Bethune, who did well at English composition and music, graduated in 1894 and entered the Bible Institute for Home and Foreign Missions (later called the Moody Bible Institute) that same year. Her intention to become a missionary to Africa was thwarted when the Presbyterian Mission Board refused her application on the grounds of race. Instead she taught at Haines Normal and Industrial Institute in Augusta, Georgia, and then at the Kindell Institute...
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