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Laura Celestia Spelman Rockefeller was born on September 9, 1839, in Wadsworth, Ohio, the second of two daughters of Lucy Henry and Harvey Buel Spelman. The Spelmans later moved to Akron and to Cleveland, where Harvey prospered in the dry-goods business. He helped to establish a Congregational Church, was a member of the state legislature, and ...
Here is a contemporaneously dated 1911 image of Mr. and Mrs. Rockefeller. There are some items in this photograph that are similar to our postcard. Specifically, John seems to be wearing a tie. If that is indeed Laura in our postcard, Laura has a matching lace feature around her neck. Here's another image apparently from a few minutes later:
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Gutteridge, whose careers benefited from Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial (LSRM) funding in the 1920s. The LSRM funded the establishment of Departments of Child Study at universities in the United States and Canada, including McGill University in Montreal. The first section of my report explores the work of the British nursery school teacher ...
I did a little research on Rockefeller at that time. And Laura Spelman was his wife and you know we wonder why Esso did more than just promote the Green Book. They hired black marketing executives, they had black people working in every part of that business. There were black chemists there. They went above and beyond, and people say
- The General Education Board
- White Philanthropy in The Jim Crow South
- Rockefeller’s Entry Into The American South
- Material Accomplishments…
- …But Racist Accommodations
- Working Under Jim Crow
- A White-Led Organization Working For Black Education
- Education to “Attach The Negro to The Soil”
- Limited — and Limiting — Expectations
- What About Grants to Black-Led Organizations?
The General Education Board (GEB) was chartered in 1902 with $1 million in funding from John D. Rockefeller, Sr., and charged with improving education in the US “without distinction of race, sex, or creed.”Office of the Messrs. Rockefeller, Rockefeller Boards, Series O, Rockefeller Archive Center. By 1907, Rockefeller, Sr. had increased his contrib...
While it was not the only philanthropic entity working on schooling in the South — the Peabody Fund and Julius Rosenwald Fundare other notable examples — the GEB outpaced the others in sheer size, scope, and longevity. And, although the Board’s work was to be “without distinction of race,” GEB leadership gave in to Jim Crow segregation, as did the ...
Perhaps surprising to some, the Rockefeller Foundation (the larger and better-known Rockefeller philanthropy) did not launch a program explicitly devoted to racial equality until 1963. Early on, most Rockefeller-funded work on race was conducted by the General Education Board. Rockefeller’s only son, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., thought to create the ...
The GEB began with a focus on material improvements to schools, bringing dilapidated one-room schoolhouses into the modern age. In 1912, the Board began underwriting the salaries of state officials who were hired to pay special attention to Black schools. The Board also paid for transportation improvements, funded teacher and administrator salaries...
However, working in the South within the bounds imposed by Jim Crow, the GEB built separate schools for white and Black students. The Black high schools were called “county training schools” to appease local whites. In accordance with their name, these schools, unlike white high schools, emphasized vocational training and domestic science over acad...
Before the General Education Board was founded, Rockefeller, Jr. had actually wanted to create a “Negro education board” that would focus solely on Black schooling. But others worried that this approach would trigger a white backlash and doom the project from the start. As Henry St. George Tucker, president of Washington and Lee University and a pa...
GEB personnel choices also reflected a cautious approach to racial issues and the realities of segregation under Jim Crow. For example, the State Supervisors for Negro Rural Schools (what would be called superintendents today) were almost always white. When the prospect of placing more African Americans into these State Supervisor positions was rai...
With its emphasis on adapting to the South’s racial order, the GEB did not challenge Jim Crow segregation and, furthermore, it took a paternalistic approach to Black education. The Board’s support for industrial education exemplified this stance. At a time when increasing numbers of African Americans were migrating to urban areas in search of new s...
To carry out its work, GEB leadership created three new positions designed to implement industrial education across the South: the State Supervisors for Negro Rural Schools, County Supervising Industrial Teachers, and County Training Schools. Leo M. Favrot, appointed by the GEB to supervise the County Training Schools, justified industrial educatio...
Several critics have pointed out the GEB’s failure to support African American organizations working toward Black cultural autonomy and civil rights. In the 1920s and 1930s, when the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History began to incorporate African American history into Black primary and secondary schools, the Board cut the funding i...
Oct 7, 2010 · In 1928, the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial granted funds to the University of Cincinnati to establish a child study and parent education program for African Americans. This paper traces the origin of the idea for this program to a special relationship between the family of John D. Rockefeller, Sr., and Spelman College, an African American ...
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