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101:, who had discussed with her the importance of funding education for African-Americans. Jeanes was interested in providing assistance for people in rural areas, saying, "I should like to help the little country schools." Jeanes asked Washington to help her set up a foundation for this purpose. Washington helped create a board of trustees for the program and Jeanes endowed the organization with $ 1,000,000 to create the Jeanes Foundation, also known as the Negro Rural School Fund or sometimes just Jeanes Fund which was incorporated on November 20, 1907. After Jeanes died, her 60:
communities. Teachers in the program were called supervising industrial teachers, Jeanes supervisors, Jeanes agents, or Jeanes teachers. These teachers had a broad latitude to decide what areas to focus on in their individual communities. It was also understood that community needs were different and
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of the schools. With the freedom to design her own agenda, she shaped industrial work and community self-help programs to meet specific needs of schools. She chronicled her progress by becoming the author of the
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teachers' methods would vary. Supervising teachers also worked to raise money for schools, school equipment and to extend the teaching year. Supervising teachers were chosen by county superintendents.
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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".
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as the first "Jeanes Supervising Industrial Teacher." Randolph created the first program for the Jeanes teachers to improve education in their communities. As the overseer of 23
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for the foundation. At the time, the Jeanes Foundation was the only educational foundation to have black members of the board. The president of the fund was
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The Jeanes Teacher in the United States 1908-1933. An Account Of Twenty-Five Yearsโ€™ Experience In The Supervision Of Negro Rural Schools
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who wanted to establish a fund to improve the educational opportunities of rural
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The Jeanes Foundation supplied the structure and the method to hire teachers for
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The Jeanes story: a chapter in the history of American education, 1908-1968.
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Soon, the board began to receive requests for funding from county
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In the 1960s, the Jeanes teachers and their students were
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into public schools. The program continued until 1968.
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communities from 1908 to the 1960s. It was founded by
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Southern Education Foundation - The Jeanes Teachers
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African American
rural
Anna T. Jeanes
Booker T. Washington
African Americans
rural
Anna T. Jeanes
philanthropist
Quaker
African-Americans
Booker T. Washington
Tuskegee Institute
Hollis B. Frissell
Hampton Institute
will
William Howard Taft
Andrew Carnegie
Board of Trustees
James Hardy Dillard
superintendents
Jackson Davis
Henrico County Public Schools
Richmond, Virginia
Virginia Estelle Randolph
elementary schools
Henrico County
curriculum
Southern Education Foundation
John F. Slater Fund
Peabody Education Fund

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