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- Title
A Black Woman "in Orthority": Claiming Professional Status in Jim Crow Alabama.
- Authors
HOFFSCHWELLE, MARY S.
- Abstract
The article discusses the twentieth century Negro Rural School Fund, Inc., also known as the Jeanes Fund, established in 1907 by Quaker philanthropist Anna T. Jeanes to promote education of African Americans in Southern States, focusing particularly on the career of Jeanes teacher A. Wells Henderson in Alabama. Topics considered include African American women professionals, vocational education, and elementary education and its curriculum.
- Subjects
SOUTHERN States; UNITED States; HENDERSON, Abbie Wells; NEGRO Rural School Fund Inc.; AFRICAN American women teachers; ALABAMA state history, 1819-1950; JEANES, Anna T.; HISTORY of education of African Americans; ELEMENTARY education of African Americans; VOCATIONAL education; HISTORY; TWENTIETH century
- Publication
Journal of Southern History, 2015, Vol 81, Issue 4, p843
- ISSN
0022-4642
- Publication type
Article