Article: The Mather School of Beaufort: Honoring the Legacy of Rachel Crane Mather

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Article: The Mather School of Beaufort: Honoring the Legacy of Rachel Crane Mather

04/02/2020

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Beaufort Lifestyle features an article (2020), written by Nakeisha Dawson-Thompson, on the life of Rachel Crane Mather and the founding of the Mather School, a Reconstruction Era school for newly freed girls in Beaufort, South Carolina. Themes include: Mather's upbringing in New Hampshire, her work with the American Missionary Association in Beaufort, South Carolina, founding the school in 1868 and the transition to post secondary education in the 1960s.

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