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Slater Fund, the Glossary

The John F. Slater Fund for the Education of Freedmen was a financial endowment established in 1882 by John Fox Slater for education of African Americans in the Southern United States.^[1]

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1882 establishments in New York (state)
1937 disestablishments in New York (state)
African Americans and education
Educational institutions disestablished in 1937
Educational organizations established in 1882

African Americans

African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.

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The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.

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Atlanta

Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia.

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Atticus Greene Haygood

Atticus Greene Haygood (1839–1896) was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

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Catechesis

Catechesis (from Greek: κατήχησις, "instruction by word of mouth", generally "instruction") is basic Christian religious education of children and adults, often from a catechism book.

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Claflin University

Claflin University is a private historically black university in Orangeburg, South Carolina, United States.

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Cleveland Hoadley Dodge

Cleveland Hoadley Dodge (January 26, 1860June 24, 1926) was an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist.

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Colored

Colored (or coloured) is a racial descriptor historically used in the United States during the Jim Crow Era to refer to an African American.

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Daniel Coit Gilman

Daniel Coit "D.

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Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.

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Financial endowment

A financial endowment is a legal structure for managing, and in many cases indefinitely perpetuating, a pool of financial, real estate, or other investments for a specific purpose according to the will of its founders and donors.

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Fisk University

Fisk University is a private historically black liberal arts college in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Freedman

A freedman or freedwoman is a person who has been released from slavery, usually by legal means.

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Hampton Negro Conference

The Hampton Negro Conference was a series of conferences held between 1897 and 1912 hosted by the Hampton Institute (now Hampton University) in Hampton, Virginia. Slater Fund and Hampton Negro Conference are African-American history between emancipation and the civil rights movement.

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Hampton University

Hampton University is a private, historically black, research university in Hampton, Virginia.

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Hampton, Virginia

Hampton is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.

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Henry C. Potter

Henry Codman Potter (May 25, 1834 – July 21, 1908) was a bishop of the Episcopal Church of the United States.

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Jabez L. M. Curry

Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry (June 5, 1825 – February 12, 1903) was an American Democratic politician from Alabama who served in the state legislature and US Congress.

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James H. Dillard

James Hardy Dillard (October 24, 1856 – August 2, 1940), also known as J. H. Dillard, was an educator from Virginia.

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Jeanes Foundation

The Jeanes Foundation, also known as the Negro Rural School Fund or Jeanes Fund, helped support education and vocational programs for African American in rural communities from 1908 to the 1960s. Slater Fund and Jeanes Foundation are education finance in the United States.

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John Fox Slater

John Fox Slater (March 4, 1815 – May 7, 1884) was an American philanthropist who supported and funded the education of freedmen after the Civil War.

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Liberal education

A liberal education is a system or course of education suitable for the cultivation of a free (liber) human being.

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Melville Fuller

Melville Weston Fuller (February 11, 1833 – July 4, 1910) was an American politician, attorney, and jurist who served as the eighth chief justice of the United States from 1888 until his death in 1910.

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Morris Ketchum Jesup

Morris Ketchum Jesup (June 21, 1830 – January 22, 1908), was an American banker and philanthropist.

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Morrison Waite

Morrison Remick "Mott" Waite (November 29, 1816 – March 23, 1888) was an American attorney, jurist, and politician from Ohio who served as the seventh chief justice of the United States from 1874 until his death in 1888.

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Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville, often known as Music City, is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Orangeburg, South Carolina

Orangeburg, also known as The Garden City, is the principal city in and the county seat of Orangeburg County, South Carolina, United States.

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Peabody Education Fund

The Peabody Education Fund was established by George Peabody in 1867, after the American Civil War, for the purpose of promoting "intellectual, moral, and industrial education in the most destitute portion of the Southern States" except schools for newly freed African Americans. Slater Fund and Peabody Education Fund are education finance in the United States.

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Phillips Brooks

Phillips Brooks (December 13, 1835January 23, 1893) was an American Episcopal clergyman and author, long the Rector of Boston's Trinity Church and briefly Bishop of Massachusetts.

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Racial segregation

Racial segregation is the separation of people into racial or other ethnic groups in daily life.

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Reconstruction era

The Reconstruction era was a period in United States history following the American Civil War, dominated by the legal, social, and political challenges of abolishing slavery and reintegrating the eleven former Confederate States of America into the United States. Slater Fund and Reconstruction era are African-American history between emancipation and the civil rights movement.

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Rosenwald Fund

The Rosenwald Fund (also known as the Rosenwald Foundation, the Julius Rosenwald Fund, and the Julius Rosenwald Foundation) was established in 1917 by Julius Rosenwald and his family for "the well-being of mankind." Rosenwald became part-owner of Sears, Roebuck and Company in 1895, serving as its president from 1908 to 1922, and chairman of its board of directors until his death in 1932. Slater Fund and Rosenwald Fund are African Americans and education and African-American history between emancipation and the civil rights movement.

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Rutherford B. Hayes

Rutherford Birchard Hayes (October 4, 1822 – January 17, 1893) was an American military officer, lawyer, and politician who served as the 19th president of the United States from 1877 to 1881.

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Seth Low

Seth Low (January 18, 1850 – September 17, 1916) was an American educator and political figure who served as the mayor of Brooklyn from 1881 to 1885, the president of Columbia University from 1890 to 1901, a diplomatic representative of the United States, and the mayor of New York City from 1902 to 1903.

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Southern Education Foundation

The Southern Education Foundation (SEF) is a not-for-profit foundation created in 1937 from four different funds — the Peabody Education Fund, the John F. Slater Fund, the Negro Rural School Fund, and the Virginia Randolph Fund.

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Southern United States

The Southern United States, sometimes Dixie, also referred to as the Southern States, the American South, the Southland, Dixieland, or simply the South, is a geographic and cultural region of the United States.

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Spelman College

Spelman College is a private, historically Black, women's liberal arts college in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

The Thirteenth Amendment (Amendment XIII) to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.

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Tuskegee University

Tuskegee University (Tuskegee or TU; formerly known as the Tuskegee Institute) is a private, historically black land-grant university in Tuskegee, Alabama.

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Tuskegee, Alabama

Tuskegee is a city in Macon County, Alabama, United States.

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Virginia Randolph

Virginia Estelle Randolph (May 1870 – March 16, 1958) was an American educator in Henrico County, Virginia.

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Vocational school

A vocational school, trade school, or technical school is a type of educational institution, which, depending on the country, may refer to either secondary or post-secondary education designed to provide vocational education or technical skills required to complete the tasks of a particular and specific job.

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Wallace Buttrick

Wallace Buttrick (October 23, 1853 – May 28, 1926) was an American Baptist minister who served as secretary (1903–1917), president (1917–1923), and chairman (1923–1926) of the General Education Board, and as a trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation (1917–1926).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slater_Fund

Also known as John F. Slater Fund, Slater Fund for the Education of Freedman, The Slater Fund.

Slater Fund, the Glossary

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1882 establishments in New York (state)

1937 disestablishments in New York (state)

African Americans and education

Educational institutions disestablished in 1937

Educational organizations established in 1882

References