General Education Board records, 1902-1969
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Summary
- Creator:
- General Education Board (New York, N.Y.)
- Extent:
- 343.19 Cubic Feet
- Language:
- English .
Background
- Scope and content:
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The collection includes correspondence, surveys, reports, studies, diaries, publications, minutes, and administrative records.
Important subjects include Negro education, general education, education in the south, rural education, teacher education, agriculture and agricultural economics, farm demonstrations, medical education and nursing, accounting, development of public school systems, state departments of education and education associations.
- Biographical / historical:
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The General Education Board (GEB) was established in 1903 by John D. Rockefeller Sr. to support education in the United States "without distinction of race, sex, or creed." The program included grants for endowment and general budgetary support of colleges and universities, support for special programs, fellowship and scholarship assistance to state school systems at all levels, and development of social and economic resources as a route to improved educational systems. Major colleges and universities across the country, as well as many small institutions in every state, received aid from the Board. The emphasis, however, was on the South and the education of Blacks. Offices were established in Richmond, Virginia, and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to give GEB agents closer contact with southern communities. The Board was especially active in promoting the public school movement in the early part of the twentieth century. After 1940, programs other than those for southern education were closed down; funds were nearly exhausted by the 1950s, and the last appropriation was made in 1964.
For a short history of the Board, see Raymond B. Fosdick's "Adventures in Giving."
- Acquisition information:
- The papers of the General Education Board were deposited with The Rockefeller Foundation Archives in 1964 by the Trustees of the General Education Board.
- Arrangement:
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The General Education Board (GEB) Archives are arranged in fourteen series, as follows:
Series 1: Appropriations
Series 2: Financial Offices
Series 3: Minutes and Dockets
Series 4: Officers Actions
Series 5: Officers Conferences
Series 6: Charts
Series 7: Reports
Series 8: Annual Reports
Series 9: Trustee Bulletin
Series 10: Authorizations and Appropriations
Series 11: Occasional Papers
Series 12: Diaries
Series 13: Accession 1984:097
Series 1054: Photographs
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Access and use
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Open for research with select materials restricted are noted. Brittle or damaged items are available at the discretion of RAC.
RAC is unable to provide access to obsolete media and original digital media. In addition separated media may not yet have undergone stabilization procedures. When feasible, a digital surrogate may be created via special order. All applicable charges will apply.
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Rockefeller Foundation has title, copyright, and literary rights in the collection, in so far as it holds them. Rockefeller Archive Center has authority to grant permission to cite and publish archival material from the collection.
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