Jeanes Foundation
The Jeanes Foundation, also known as the Negro Rural School Fund or Jeanes Fund, helped support education and vocational programs for African American in rural communities from 1908 to the 1960s. It was founded by Anna T. Jeanes with help from Booker T. Washington in 1907.
About
The Jeanes Foundation supplied the structure and the method to hire teachers for African Americans in rural communities. Teachers in the program were called supervising industrial teachers, Jeanes supervisors, Jeanes agents, or Jeanes teachers.[1] These teachers had a broad latitude to decide what areas to focus on in their individual communities.[1] It was also understood that community needs were different and teachers' methods would vary.[2] Supervising teachers also worked to raise money for schools, school equipment and to extend the teaching year.[3] Supervising teachers were chosen by county superintendents.[4]
History
The foundation was the idea of
Soon, the board began to receive requests for funding from county
The
In the 1960s, the Jeanes teachers and their students were integrated into public schools.[8] The program continued until 1968.[1]
Recommended literature
- Lance G. E. Jones: The Jeanes Teacher in the United States 1908-1933. An Account Of Twenty-Five Years’ Experience In The Supervision Of Negro Rural Schools. Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill and London, 1937. ISBN 978-0-8078-6837-9
- Mildred M. Williams, Kara Vaughn Jackson: The Jeanes story: a chapter in the history of American education, 1908-1968. Jackson State University: [distributed by the University Press of Mississippi], 1979
References
- ^ a b c Pincham 2005, p. 118.
- ^ Pincham 2005, p. 119.
- ^ Caliver 1933, p. 2-3.
- ^ a b c Caliver 1933, p. 2.
- ^ a b c Chirhart, Ann Short (6 August 2013). "Jeanes Teachers". New Georgia Encyclopedia. Archived from the original on 9 October 2012. Retrieved 30 August 2019.
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- ^ a b c d e f g h Pincham 2005, p. 117.
- ^ a b c "Anna T. Jeanes". Legacy Museum. Archived from the original on 3 November 2006. Retrieved 30 August 2019.
- ^ "The Jeanes Supervisors". University of South Carolina-Aiken. Archived from the original on 2008-05-16. Retrieved 2008-05-22.
- ^ a b "The Museum In Memory Of Virginia E. Randolph". Henrico County, Virginia. Archived from the original on 23 February 2009. Retrieved 30 August 2019.
- ^ "Virginia E. Randolph, a teaching pioneer". African American Registry. Retrieved 2019-08-30.
- ISBN 0-313-28931-X.
Sources
- Caliver, Ambrose (1933). "Rural Elementary Education Among Negroes Under Jean Supervising Teachers". Department of Interior (5) – via Internet Archive.
- Pincham, Linda B. (Spring 2005). "A League of Willing Workers: The Impact of Northern Philanthropy, Virginia Estelle Randolph and the Jeanes Teachers in Early Twentieth-Century Virginia". The Journal of Negro Education. 74 (2): 112–123. JSTOR 40034537.