Mary Bethune's Influence On Education

The first incident that was fascinating in Bethune’s life was the commitment and willpower she had to become an educator. Scotia Seminary provided Bethune “her first experience in an integrated setting and introduced her to benevolent white northern teacher-reformers who were committed to racial uplift” (Ashton 164). To achieve her desire of entering mission service, Bethune registered in the Dwight Moody Institute for Home and Foreign Missions in Chicago, with the support of a second scholarship from Crissman, and was submitted to the Social Gospel Movement. In 1895, when Mary terminated the program she realized there were no placements open for African-American missionary teachers. Mary moved back to the South in 1896 to educate African-American