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Mary McLeod Bethune: Village of God

Mary McLeod Bethune: Village of God

Hardcover

Biographies GeneralGeneral ChristianityRegional: South

ISBN10: 1621906213
ISBN13: 9781621906216
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: Feb 24 2021
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.42
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Mary McLeod Bethune was born on May 10, 1875, in a log cabin in rural Sumter County, South Carolina. She was the fifteenth child among seventeen siblings but the first born free of the bonds of slavery. As a child she attended a Presbyterian mission school in nearby Mayesville and Scotia Seminary in Concord, North Carolina. After some years at Scotia she was admitted in 1894 to the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. Her two years of training at Moody did not lead to missionary work in Africa, as she had dreamed, but to missionlike teaching positions in the South and eventually her founding, in 1904, of the Daytona Normal and Industrial Institute for Girls, in Daytona Beach, Florida. That institution would grow to the present-day Bethune-Cookman University.

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