Anna Jeanes was a Quaker, a Philadelphian, and a philanthropist. Like Julius Rosenwald, George Peabody, and John D. Rockefeller, she was a rich and charitable Northerner who helped to improve ...

Thomas Grant story As time progressed ... In 1907, a wealthy Philadelphia Quaker named Anna T. Jeanes donated $1 million to set up the Negro Rural School Fund to provide educational opportunities ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - A project to preserve the historic Anna T. Jeanes School for African American children in Fairhope is underway. The school is one of 14 schools built from an endowment from ...

Anna T. Jeanes was born in Philadelphia in the early 1800s and by the time of her death in 1907, the Quaker philanthropist had dedicated much of her money and effort into establishing southern ...

In 1907, a wealthy Philadelphia Quaker named Anna T. Jeanes donated $1 million to set up the Negro Rural School Fund to provide educational opportunities for the poor black children in the rural ...