The Southern Education Foundation records include the administrative files of the John F. Slater Fund (1882-1937), the Negro Rural School Fund (Anna T. Jeanes Fund)(1907-1937), and the Southern Education Foundation (SEF). The records of these organizations document the activities of philanthropists and educators in helping to provide African Americans in the South with greater educational opportunities. The records of both the John F. Slater Fund and the Anna T. Jeanes Fund include minutes of meetings, annual reports, financial records, and application forms from various states requesting educational aid. The materials in this digital collection represent photographs and scrapbooks ranging from the 1930s to the 1960s. and audio recordings from a meeting in 1997. At the AUC Robert W. Woodruff Library we are always striving to improve our digital collections. We welcome additional information about people, places, or events depicted in any of the works in this collection. To submit information, please contact us at DSD@auctr.edu. 
Jun 20, 2019

Southern Education Foundation Records

The Southern Education Foundation records include the administrative files of the John F. Slater Fund (1882-1937), the Negro Rural School Fund (Anna T. Jeanes Fund)(1907-1937), and the Southern Education Foundation (SEF). The records of these organizations document the activities of philanthropists and educators in helping to provide African Americans in the South with greater educational opportunities. The records of both the John F. Slater Fund and the Anna T. Jeanes Fund include minutes of meetings, annual reports, financial records, and application forms from various states requesting educational aid. The materials in this digital collection represent photographs and scrapbooks ranging from the 1930s to the 1960s. and audio recordings from a meeting in 1997.

At the AUC Robert W. Woodruff Library we are always striving to improve our digital collections. We welcome additional information about people, places, or events depicted in any of the works in this collection. To submit information, please contact us at DSD@auctr.edu. 
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View of children working on an activity.
Southern Education Foundation Records
Children Particpate in an Activity, circa 1960
Date Created
1955/1965
Description
View of children working on an activity.
Subject
African Americans--Education, Groups and organizations, Associations, institutions, etc., Children, Portraits and people
Collection
Southern Education Foundation Records
View of children working on an activity.
Southern Education Foundation Records
Children Particpate in an Activity, circa 1960
Date Created
1955/1965
Description
View of children working on an activity.
Subject
African Americans--Education, Groups and organizations, Associations, institutions, etc., Children, Portraits and people
Collection
Southern Education Foundation Records
View of children reading.
Southern Education Foundation Records
Children Reading, circa 1960
Date Created
1955/1965
Description
View of children reading.
Subject
African Americans--Education, Groups and organizations, Associations, institutions, etc., Children, Portraits and people
Collection
Southern Education Foundation Records
A child speaks on a microphone while others stand behind him.
Southern Education Foundation Records
Unidentified Group, circa 1960
Date Created
1955/1965
Description
A child speaks on a microphone while others stand behind him.
Subject
African Americans--Education, Groups and organizations, Associations, institutions, etc., Children, Portraits and people
Collection
Southern Education Foundation Records
View of four children working on a project.
Southern Education Foundation Records
Children Particpate in an Activity, circa 1960
Date Created
1955/1965
Description
View of four children working on a project.
Subject
African Americans--Education, Groups and organizations, Associations, institutions, etc., Children, Portraits and people
Collection
Southern Education Foundation Records
View of children working on an activity.
Southern Education Foundation Records
Children Particpate in an Activity, circa 1960
Date Created
1955/1965
Description
View of children working on an activity.
Subject
African Americans--Education, Groups and organizations, Associations, institutions, etc., Children, Portraits and people
Collection
Southern Education Foundation Records
Children and their teacher sit in a circle for an activity.
Southern Education Foundation Records
Children in a Classroom, circa 1960
Date Created
1955/1965
Description
Children and their teacher sit in a circle for an activity.
Subject
African Americans--Education, Groups and organizations, Associations, institutions, etc., Children, Portraits and people
Collection
Southern Education Foundation Records
View of children working on an activity.
Southern Education Foundation Records
Children Particpate in an Activity, circa 1960
Date Created
1955/1965
Description
View of children working on an activity.
Subject
African Americans--Education, Groups and organizations, Associations, institutions, etc., Children, Portraits and people
Collection
Southern Education Foundation Records
A woman and a group of children pray before a meal.
Southern Education Foundation Records
People Praying, circa 1960
Date Created
1955/1965
Description
A woman and a group of children pray before a meal.
Subject
African Americans--Education, Groups and organizations, Associations, institutions, etc., Children, Portraits and people
Collection
Southern Education Foundation Records
View of children singing.
Southern Education Foundation Records
Children Sing in a Choir, circa 1960
Date Created
1955/1965
Description
View of children singing.
Subject
African Americans--Education, Groups and organizations, Associations, institutions, etc., Children, Portraits and people
Collection
Southern Education Foundation Records
View of students sitting in a classroom.
Southern Education Foundation Records
Students, June 2, 1953
Date Created
1953-06-02
Description
View of students sitting in a classroom.
Subject
African Americans--Education, Groups and organizations, Associations, institutions, etc., Portraits and people
Collection
Southern Education Foundation Records
A group portrait of student and teacher outside of a class building.
Southern Education Foundation Records
Student Group, circa 1953
Date Created
1953
Description
A group portrait of student and teacher outside of a class building.
Subject
African Americans--Education, Groups and organizations, Associations, institutions, etc., Portraits and people
Collection
Southern Education Foundation Records
Unidentified people square dance. Written on recto: The square dance was only one of the recreational activities that made the workshop social a pleasant friendly affair.
Southern Education Foundation Records
People Square Dance, circa 1955
Date Created
1950/1960
Description
Unidentified people square dance. Written on recto: The square dance was only one of the recreational activities that made the workshop social a pleasant friendly affair.
Subject
African Americans--Education, Groups and organizations, Associations, institutions, etc., Portraits and people
Collection
Southern Education Foundation Records
An unidentified group looks at books in a library. Written on recto: An intellectual moment in the library when principals select ideas that may be carried back home, and find that books are important resources.
Southern Education Foundation Records
Group in a Library, circa 1955
Date Created
1950/1960
Description
An unidentified group looks at books in a library. Written on recto: An intellectual moment in the library when principals select ideas that may be carried back home, and find that books are important resources.
Subject
African Americans--Education, Groups and organizations, Associations, institutions, etc., Portraits and people
Collection
Southern Education Foundation Records
A view of people board a bus.
Southern Education Foundation Records
People Get on a Bus, circa 1955
Date Created
1950/1960
Description
A view of people board a bus.
Subject
African Americans--Education, Groups and organizations, Associations, institutions, etc., Portraits and people
Collection
Southern Education Foundation Records
View of men eating in a dining room after the last evaluation conference. Written on recto: In the dining room after the last evaluation conference the men talk freely on the strong and weak points of the meeting. As one principal said in terms of the Baptist and Methodist churches with which the schools are so closely identified, "This last meeting with all the superintendents and state officials present was like an experience meeting, or better still a 'telling-your-determination meeting' for we committed ourselves publicly to certain actions and asked others to help us spiritually and materially."
Southern Education Foundation Records
People in a Dining Room, circa 1955
Date Created
1950/1960
Description
View of men eating in a dining room after the last evaluation conference. Written on recto: In the dining room after the last evaluation conference the men talk freely on the strong and weak points of the meeting. As one principal said in terms of the Baptist and Methodist churches with which the schools are so closely identified, "This last meeting with all the superintendents and state officials present was like an experience meeting, or better still a 'telling-your-determination meeting' for we committed ourselves publicly to certain actions and asked others to help us spiritually and materially."
Subject
African Americans--Education, Groups and organizations, Associations, institutions, etc., Portraits and people
Collection
Southern Education Foundation Records
Dean Murphy talks to a group. Written on recto: Dean Murphy tells the group a human interest story which clinches a point in human relations in educational administration.
Southern Education Foundation Records
Dean Murphy and Others, circa 1955
Date Created
1950/1960
Description
Dean Murphy talks to a group. Written on recto: Dean Murphy tells the group a human interest story which clinches a point in human relations in educational administration.
Subject
African Americans--Education, Groups and organizations, Associations, institutions, etc., Portraits and people
Collection
Southern Education Foundation Records
View of students and teachers in a classroom.
Southern Education Foundation Records
People in a Classroom, circa 1955
Date Created
1950/1960
Description
View of students and teachers in a classroom.
Subject
African Americans--Education, Groups and organizations, Associations, institutions, etc., Portraits and people
Collection
Southern Education Foundation Records
View of children working on an activity.
Southern Education Foundation Records
Children Particpate in an Activity, circa 1955
Date Created
1950/1960
Description
View of children working on an activity.
Subject
African Americans--Education, Groups and organizations, Associations, institutions, etc., Children, Portraits and people
Collection
Southern Education Foundation Records
Children work on various activities in a classroom.
Southern Education Foundation Records
Children in a Classroom, circa 1955
Date Created
1950/1960
Description
Children work on various activities in a classroom.
Subject
African Americans--Education, Groups and organizations, Associations, institutions, etc., Children, Portraits and people
Collection
Southern Education Foundation Records