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Photograph showing Jeanes Supervisors gathered at the Georgia Jeanes Teachers Annual Dinner in Atlanta, circa 1945. At the head table, from left to right, the individuals are identified as Kara Jackson (standing), Mella West, and Mr. Hooper. Seated at the next table to the right are Mrs. and Dr. Benjamin Mays. Three unidentified women sit at a table in front of the head table.In 1907 Anna T. Jeanes, a Philadelphia Quaker philanthropist, donated $1 million for the creation of a fund to hire black teachers as supervisors in African American schools and to improve black communities. The program in Georgia began with six Jeanes teachers in 1908 and eventually grew to fifty-three by 1939. Known as Jeanes Supervisors, a name upon which they insisted, the teachers encouraged the Division of Negro Education in Georgia to hire more African American educators.
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