Jewell Legett and the social curriculum: the education of a Southern Baptist woman missionary at the WMU Training School, 1908-1909: Jewell Legett was twenty-four years old in 1908 when she traveled from her home in Port Lavaca, Texas, to enter the Woman's Missionary Union Training School (WMUTS) at Louisville, Kentucky.

From: Baptist History and Heritage | Date: January 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Jewell planned to be a missionary and had the credentials to be a perfect candidate for the Southern Baptist mission field: the daughter of a Baptist "cowboy preacher"; a graduate of coeducational Baylor University, in Waco, Texas; and a lifetime member of Woman's Missionary Union (WMU), auxiliary to the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC).

The new WMUTS had been opened officially for one year when Jewell arrived, and the school operated as a coordinate of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Women students took advantage of selected classes with seminary men while also ...

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