Correspondence Regarding the Improvement and Beautification of School Plant Contest
A curated collection of letters, receipts, expenditure statements, financial documents, and correspondence between the Julius Rosenwald Fund, the State Department of Education, the Division of Negro Education, Jeanes Supervisors, county school superintendents, and school board members regarding the planning, logistics, and execution of the Contest on Improvement and Beautification of school plants among the white schools and Negro schools. This collection also contains copies of reports detailing the financial awards received by counties that won the contest, as well as reports submitted by various schools to the contest organizers outlining the improvements made and the total estimated costs for these improvements for the year.
- Title
- Correspondence Regarding the Improvement and Beautification of School Plant Contest in both White and Colored Schools across Counties in the South 1936-1937
- Description
- A curated collection of letters, receipts, expenditure statements, financial documents, and correspondence between the Julius Rosenwald Fund, the State Department of Education, the Division of Negro Education, Jeanes Supervisors, county school superintendents, and school board members regarding the planning, logistics, and execution of the Contest on Improvement and Beautification of school plants among the white schools and Negro schools. This collection also contains copies of reports detailing the financial awards received by counties that won the contest, as well as reports submitted by various schools to the contest organizers outlining the improvements made and the total estimated costs for these improvements for the year.
- Identifier
- fisk_rf_sf_331_00010
- Subject
- The Julius Rosenwald Fund, 20th Century—History, African American history, Smith, S. L. (Samuel Leonard), 1875-1956, Credle, W. F. (William Frontis), 1892-1950, Dixon, J. Curtis (John Curtis), 1894-1975
- Date
- 1936-01-04/1937-11-09
- Format
- Type
- Text
- Rights
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- Source
- Projects/Person Requesting Aid, Box 326, Julius Rosenwald Fund Archives, 1917-1948, John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library
- Publisher
- John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library
- Item sets
- School Fund