Anna T. Jeanes

Anna Thomas Jeanes ( born April 7, 1822 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, † September 24, 1907 in German Town, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was an American writer and philanthropist, known especially by the Foundation of the Negro Rural School Fund.

Biography

Anna Jeanes was born into a Quaker family and was the youngest of ten children of a wealthy textile merchant who also owned several coal mines. Since all her siblings were childless, fell after the death of her parents and brother last the entire family wealth in their hands.

She began immediately with the use of those assets for charitable purposes and initially donated several hundred thousand U.S. dollars for local schools and a nursing home in Philadelphia, before a one- million -US - dollar Foundation ($ 1 million ) founded for educational purposes. Thus they promoted African-American teacher and traveling supervisors at ( Jeanes Supervisors ) for local schools and founded schools for African Americans. This was the largest single foundation for public education in the history of the United States at that time. In addition to Booker T. Washington U.S. President William Howard Taft belonged to the Supervisory Board of the " Jeanes Fund" from 1908 until his death in 1930.

In April 1905, they sent George Foster Peabody, the treasurer of the company founded by John D. Rockefeller in 1903 " General Education Board ", a check for $ 200,000 to support the establishment of schools for Negroes in rural areas. Shortly before her death, she transferred the trusteeship over this Negro Rural School Fund, which was later renamed the Anna T. Jeanes Foundation, to Hollis Frissell and Booker T. Washington. Even after her death occurred spending on so-called Jeanes Teachers who toured the southern states to support African-American students in education and study. In 1937, the Foundation joined together with several other charities for Southern Education Foundation, which continues operating the promotion of education for poor and vulnerable.

Anna T. Jeanes despised American football and said about the sport, " It must be wicked men, to imitate the war if peace is ." In her will, she bequeathed the mines in the family with a then- value of one million U.S. dollars to the Swarthmore College with the stipulation that they would have to adjust their football program. This edition was approved by Swarthmore College. Moreover, it was built with money from the foundation, erected in 1928 Jeanes Hospital in Philadelphia.

The Religious Society of friends in Philadelphia today manage the interest income of the foundations for residential and nursing homes of the Quakers.

Works

• The Sacrificer and Non- Sacrificer. Publisher: Porter & Coates, Philadelphia, 1886.
• Fancy 's Flight 1905 - an anthology, published posthumously