Doctor Dillard of the Jeanes Fund. [Doubly Inscribed Copy]

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Biography of James H. Dillard, educator and first president of the Negro Rural School Fund—also known as the Jeanes Foundation, established by Quaker philanthropist Anna T. Jeanes (1822–1907).

“[Dillard] developed an interest in progressive causes, which he translated into an active civic life. ... Dillard’s work attracted the attention of proponents of African-American education, including Booker T. Washington, who urged him to become president of the newly endowed Anna T. Jeanes Negro Rural School Fund in 1907. ... Under Dillard, the Jeanes Fund provided African-American teachers for black schools throughout the South. These teachers worked in concert with local primary public schools, providing instruction in “industrial education,” which included such crafts as carpentry for boys and sewing for girls.” (ANB)

This copy doubly inscribed to Laurence John Wesley Hayes (1908–?) by its author, African American educator Benjamin Brawley, and by the author of the introduction, clergyman, and educator Anson Phelps Stokes (1874–1958). Hayes appears to have been graduated from Howard University which published his monograph The Negro Federal Government Worker, A Study of His Classification Status in the District of Columbia, 1883-1938 (1941). Stokes’ inscription references this latter monograph: “Wishing Mr. Hayes every success in finishing his important thesis on Negro employees of the Federal Government.”

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