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She started an order to nuns to serve American Indians and Afro-Americans.
—Segregationists were not happy with her efforts, and burned a school in Pennsylvania. A stick of dynamite was discovered at another mission site. In 1922, the Ku Klux Klan threatened a school the sisters had opened in Beaumont, Texas, but a few days later, a severe thunderstorm devastated the area and tore down the Klan’s headquarters there.
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She decided to dedicate her life to serving American Indian and African American people. Her decision made big news in the elite social circles of Philadelphia; newspapers wondered how she could walk away from married life and an inheritance worth more than $100 million in today's dollars—to serve poor people.—Segregationists were not happy with her efforts, and burned a school in Pennsylvania. A stick of dynamite was discovered at another mission site. In 1922, the Ku Klux Klan threatened a school the sisters had opened in Beaumont, Texas, but a few days later, a severe thunderstorm devastated the area and tore down the Klan’s headquarters there.
This had been the turning point in her life: On a trip to Europe, she had the chance to greet Pope Leo XIII. She asked him to send missionaries to help American Indians in Wyoming. He replied, “Why don’t you become a missionary?” This response shocked her....