A&M 3193General Education Board Records, 1901-1967 A&M 3193Staff of the West Virginia & Regional History CenterWest Virginia and Regional History Center

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This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2025-08-30 07:22:46 -0400.Description is written in: English, Latin script.Describing Archives: A Content Standard West Virginia and Regional History Center General Education Board Records General Education Board A&M 3193 Archival Resource Key Previous Archival Resource Key Previous Archival Resource Key Previous Archival Resource Key /repositories/2/resources/1423 0.44 Linear Feet Summary: 5 1/4 in. (3 reels of microfilm, 1.75 in. each) 1901-1967 Correspondence, reports, statistics, maps, photographs and pamphlets related to the efforts in West Virginia of the early southern program of the General Education Board (GEB). The GEB, founded by John D. Rockefeller, is one of the most significant philanthropic efforts in the history of U.S. education particularly noted for its aid to African-American schools, teachers and students. In West Virginia it aided the African-American colleges of West Virginia State, a public institution and Storer, a privately supported school. For both colleges it was asked to fund building construction, equipment purchases and teachers salaries especially for vocational education and home economics. Mention is also made of conditions at Storer College and at other Negro colleges around the country. Other West Virginia schools aided were Bethany, Salem, Morris Harvey, West Virginia University, Davis & Elkins, and West Virginia Wesleyan. Aid was requested at these other West Virginia schools for endowments, salaries, building construction and purchases of equipment and books. There are also for these colleges selected balance sheets, resolutions, statistics, prospectuses and case studies. There is much material on vocational education, adult and extension courses, and surveys and statistics of libraries, schools and teachers on the secondary level in West Virginia supplied mainly by the West Virginia Department of Education. Other topics mentioned are expansion of secondary education in mining areas, establishment and maintenance of the West Virginia Division of Information and Statistics, the formation of the West Virginia Foundation of Independent Colleges, the employment stabilization of life planning institutes and war activities of schools in both World War I and World War II. Names mentioned are D. B. Purinton, Frank B. Trotter, W. E. Hodges, J. N. Deahl, Wallace B. Fleming, George Rice Hovey, Cloyd Goodnight, Stephen B. Elkins, Henry D. Hatfield, Nat T. Frame, L. L. Friend and M. P. Shawkey. West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536 / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/ English . Conditions Governing Access

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 African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. Education Schools World War, 1914-1918 World War, 1939-1945 Bethany College (Bethany, W. Va.) Davis and Elkins College Morris Harvey College Salem College (Salem, W. Va.) Storer College West Virginia. State Department of Education West Virginia. Division of Information & Statistics West Virginia Foundation of Independent Colleges West Virginia State College (Institute, W. Va.) West Virginia University West Virginia Wesleyan College Deahl, J. N. Elkins, Stephen B. (Stephen Benton), 1841-1911 Fleming, Wallace Bruce, 1872-1952 Frame, Nat T. (Nat Terry), 1877- Friend, L. L. Goodnight, Cloyd Hatfield, Henry Drury, 1875-1962 Hodges, W. E. Hovey, George Rice. Purinton, Daniel B. Shawkey, M. P.