Ila Upchurch/Jeanes Teacher Project collection, 1933-1949.

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Ila Upchurch/Jeanes Teacher Project collection, 1933-1949.

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Photocopies of correspondence, minutes, reports, printed materials, and photographs, relating to the career of African American educator Ila Upchurch and to the impact of the Jeanes teacher project (Negro Rural School Fund) founded by philanthropist Anna T. Jeanes.

208 photographs.

Arkansas History Commission, Department of Archives and History

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SNAC Resource ID: 7079911

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Negro Rural School Fund, Inc.

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The Negro Rural School Fund, also known as the Anna T. Jeanes Foundation, was created in 1907 in order to financially assist the rural community schools for African Americans in the South. The Fund was used primarily to assist the work of African American industrial teachers by extending school terms, supplementing their salaries, and building new facilities. From the description of Board of Trustees records, 1908-1937. (Robert W. Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center, In...

National Jeanes Association

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Upchurch, Ila Dedia, 1892-1989

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Ila Dedia Upchurch was born in Buena Vista, Chickasaw County, Miss., the daughter of James and Rachel Upchurch. She was the fourth child of three girls and three boys. She attended Okalona Industrial College and Tuskegee Institute in Alabama before having to quit in order to assume family responsibilities. She took the county examination for making the second grade teacher certificate at the age of seventeen and began her teaching career at Pleasant Grove. She received a scholarship to Shorter C...

Jeanes, Anna T. (Anna Thomas), 1822-1907

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