New Additions to African American Education Digital Collection, part 2

This post was written by Anna Spencer, summer intern at the Digital Access Branch.
Published on August 16, 2018 by Olivia

The correspondence of the Director of the Division of Cooperation in Education and Race Relations is a 4-box series housed under the Division of Negro Education. Nathan Carter Newbold served as the director during the division’s existence.

The division worked to spread positive information about the lives and history of African Americans. Materials include letters, reports, speeches and meeting minutes about improving race relations and increasing educational opportunities for African Americans. The division arranged conferences and guest speakers to provide information about race relations and African American history to white colleges and universities.

Newbold also laid out the plans for the Division of Negro Education and served as the Director of the Division until his retirement. Of special note is the project between the State Department of Public Instruction, The University of North Carolina, and Duke University. These organizations worked together to create a book of biographies about influential and important African American North Carolinians. Although the book is not part of the series, plans and interviews are included in some letters.

The Files of the State Supervisor of Elementary Education is an 8-box series housed under the Division of Negro Education. The State Supervisor of Elementary Education travelled the state evaluating African American elementary schools, holding teaching clinics, conducting meetings, and evaluating curriculum.

The State Supervisor of Elementary Education was also responsible for making recommendations for school accreditation. The series includes letters, reports, maps, statistics, meeting minutes, and speeches. Of special note is the information provided about the Jeanes program in North Carolina.

The Jeanes Fund started as an endowment by Anna T. Jeanes, a Philadelphia Quaker, in 1907 to increase educational opportunities for African Americans. Over the following decades the mission of the Jeanes teachers shifted from providing job training to students to acting as supervisors at African American schools.

The series contains documents about the National Jeanes Association, reports from Jeanes supervisors, and conference information.

Link to this NC Archives post: https://ncarchives.wpcomstaging.com/2018/08/16/new-additions-to-african-american-education-digital-collection-part-2/?fbclid=IwY2xjawTkh1pwZG9mBWV4dG4DYWVtAjEwAGJyaWQRMU5sTkw4dkxhT01INnR0ZkRzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeYpNwWuqR8AcpXYus3_Q6Lx7ScLVzMShEvCUj4y8eHoezpiegxLq8D_YZM5A_aem_UOA2NGHhBlBskJzBlR_G-g
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Department of Public Instruction
This digital collection contains materials from Division of Negro Education of the Department of Public Instruction record group in the custody of the State Archives of North Carolina, including the following series:

Correspondence of the Supervisor, Rosenwald Fund - These materials are presented as folders rather than as items due to the amount of information in the Rosenwald Fund files. For more information about the Rosenwald Fund, see the related NCPedia entry and North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office page on the Rosenwald schools.

Speeches and articles by N.C. Newbold, the Director of the Division of Negro Education - These materials come from conferences and committees and include topics such as race relations, salaries, education opportunities, comparative information from different states, information on enrollment, number of graduates, and the output from teacher training programs. These items date from 1922 to 1948.

Link to NC Archives Collection of Black Education In NC: https://digital.ncdcr.gov/spotlights/african-american-education-in-north-carolina