County training schools application forms, 1932-1937.

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County training schools application forms, 1932-1937.

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The series consists of application forms from states and counties requesting funding from the John F. Slater Fund for county training schools from 1932-1937. The applications supply information on the county schools such as enrollment statistics, number of teachers funded, the type of educational program implemented (vocational or industrial, for example), and total expenditures.

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Atlanta University Center, Robert W. Woodruff Library

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Atlanta University Center, Robert W. Woodruff Library

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John F. Slater Fund

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The John F. Slater Fund was organized in April 1882 as an educational fund to assist African Americans after Emancipation and the Civil War. Through grants, the Slater Fund helped to develop private black colleges and four-year high schools for blacks, stimulated vocational and industrial training, and originated the idea of county training schools. In 1937, the fund merged with the Negro Rural School Fund, Inc. (also known as the Anna T. Jeanes Foundation) to form the Southern Education Foundat...