Anna T. Jeanes

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Anna Thomas Jeanes (* 7. April 1822 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania ; † 24. September 1907 in German Town , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was an American writer and philanthropist , particularly through the foundation of the Negro Rural School Fund was announced.

Anna Thomas Jeanes around 1896

biography

Anna Jeanes came from a Quaker family and was the youngest of ten children of a wealthy textile merchant who also owned several coal mines . Since all of her siblings were childless, the entire family property fell into her hands after the death of her parents and her last brother.

She immediately began using those assets for charitable causes, donating several hundred thousand US dollars to local schools and a Philadelphia retirement home before setting up a US $ 1 million educational foundation. Through this she recruited African American teachers and traveling supervisors ( Jeanes Supervisors ) for local schools and founded schools for African Americans. It was the largest single public education foundation in United States history at the time. In addition to Booker T. Washington, US President William Howard Taft was a member of the board of directors of the "Jeanes Fund" from 1908 until his death in 1930.

In April 1905, she sent George Foster Peabody , treasurer of the General Education Board founded by John D. Rockefeller in 1903, a check for $ 200,000 to help set up schools for Negroes in rural areas. Shortly before her death, she passed the trust of this Negro Rural School Fund , which was later renamed the Anna T. Jeanes Foundation , to Hollis Frissell and Booker T. Washington . Even after her death, there were expenses for the so-called Jeanes Teachers , who traveled to the southern states to support African-American schoolchildren and students in schooling and studying. In 1937 the foundation merged with several other charities to form the Southern Education Foundation , which continued to promote education for the poor and disadvantaged.

Anna T. Jeanes despised American football and said of the sport "It must be godless men who imitate war when there is peace". In her will, she bequeathed the family's mines, then valued at one million US dollars, to Swarthmore College , on condition that they discontinue their football program. This edition was accepted by Swarthmore College. In addition, the Jeanes Hospital in Philadelphia, built in 1928, was built with funds from the foundation .

The Religious Society of Friends in Philadelphia still manages the interest income of the Quaker homes and homes today.

Works

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jeanes Supervisors (Homepage of the University of South Carolina Aiken) ( Memento of the original from May 16, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.usca.edu
  2. ^ The African-American Schools of Luisa County, Virginia
  3. ^ The General Education Board: an account of its activities, 1902-1914 . Miss Jeanes letter with check - Page 223 Appendix
  4. ^ Homepage of the Jeanes Hospital
  5. ↑ Anna T. and Joseph Jeanes Granting Group ( Memento of the original from February 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pym.org
personal data
SURNAME Jeanes, Anna T.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jeanes, Anna Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author and philanthropist
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia , Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH September 24, 1907
Place of death Germantown , Philadelphia , Pennsylvania