Progress Report for the Brewton-Bond Study, 1938

This collection contains progress report and proposed procedure for the Brewton-Bond study, a special study of rural elementary schools in the South, sponsored by the Julius Rosenwald Fund and conducted by the Division of Surveys and Field Studies at George Peabody College for Teachers in Nashville, Tennessee in 1938. It also includes Correspondence between the Rosenwald Fund and Mr. Doak S. Campbell, director of the Division of Surveys and Field Studies, regarding the study’s progress, updates, findings, and expenses. Additionally, the collection features reports on white rural schools in Georgia, payment vouchers documenting expenditures from the study's budget, and records of salary payments to the study's organizers. It also contains a weekly editorial newspaper, "My Weekly Reader," obtained by Mr. Bond during his visit to a rural school in North Louisiana, as well as a copy of the article "The Little Red Schoolhouse Challenge," written by Mr. John E. Brewton. The collection concludes with a document titled "The Status of Supervision of Schools for Negroes" in the Southeastern States, also authored by Mr. John E. Brewton.