The PURPOSE
The Young People’s Black Pedagogical Activism Lab aims to broaden the Black teacher narrative by high-lighting both professionals and community educators in Alabama, Florida, Georgia and Louisiana who engaged in teaching roles in and out of schools that our Project will identify as Education for Liberation in the Jeanes teaching tradition.
About Jeanes
Anna T. Jeanes established the Negro Rural School Fund, often called the Jeanes Fund, in 1907 with $1 million to address the needs of small rural schools for Black people in the South. . . Jeanes teachers worked to improve public health, living conditions, and teacher training, started self-improvement and canning clubs, and truly did whatever was most needed in the community. The Anna T. Jeanes Fund was a forerunner of the Southern Education Foundation.