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Bertha Hamilton knew I was called, and Bertha Hamilton believed I was called to the ministry, but Bertha Hamilton felt because I had a symbol of hatred hanging in my bedroom, there was no way that I would be able to be congruent with the gospel, it took strength and courage for a Black woman to square up against a man named Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee and tell him the symbol of his heritage, at the time, was wrong and inappropriate.