Simon Study: Fair Play One-Teacher Experimental School, 1935 - 1937

This collection contains correspondence between Mr. J. E. Owen, the superintendent of Morgan County Public Schools in Georgia, and the Julius Rosenwald Fund regarding the payment of salaries for Mr. Ralph Gaskins, Miss Ruth Lockman, and Allie Cheney. Additionally, it includes correspondence between Dr. Edwin R. Embree and Mrs. G. G. Adair of the Fair Play Woman's Club, in which she expresses appreciation for the Fund's work at Fair Play School and within the community while also requesting assistance to build a teacherage for the school. The collection also contains a copy of an itinerary series for the Fair Play One-Teacher Experimental School as part of the Simon Study. This document covers subjects such as the Report of Visit to Fair Play and Monticello and Fair Play One-Teacher Experimental School. Furthermore, the collection includes a document titled "Fair Play Negro School and Community 1935–1936", written by the State Department of Education, Division of Negro Education, in Atlanta, Georgia, for the Simon Study. The document is structured into the following sections: The Situation, The Problem, Procedure, Conclusion, The Teacher's Observation, Subject Matter Adapted to Rural Life (Fair Play Community), and Samples of Children's Work at Fair Play Negro Experimental School (including language, writing, and spelling based on social studies, agriculture, and science). Additional sections include Appendix, The Teacher Finds a Place to Live, The Teacher Studies Fair Play Negro Community, Tabular Study of Homes of Fair Play Negroes, Superstitions Common to Negroes in Fair Play, Cumulative Inventory of Negro Pupils of Fair Play (A Study of One Pupil), Graphs, and Pupils' Part in Creating a Livable Environment. There is a copy of another document titled Supplement to Fairplay Curriculum Study Being an Appraisal and Suggestions made by Benjamin F. Bullock.