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Abstract
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.
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Preferred Citation
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], General Education Board Records, A&M 3193, West Virginia and Regional
History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
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