This series contains the administrative papers of the Negro Education Division's external funding programs. The body of the series is primarily correspondence with various philanthropic organizations. Interfiled with the correspondence are: (1) reports; (2) requisitions; (3) bulletins; (4) applications; (5) notices; (6) printed matter concerning the transactions of the Division with the funding agencies The greater portion of the records concern the Julius Rosenwald Foundation of Illinois. This philanthropic organization served Black education in the rural South by granting monies to the State of Georgia for the training of Black teachers and the construction and maintenance of Black schools. A similar organization with a significant amount of material in this series is the General Education Board of the Rockefeller Foundation. In addition, there is a small accumulation of correspondence with such agencies as: (1) the Phelps‑Stokes Fund; (2) The American Church Institute for Negroes; (3) The Commonwealth Fund and the Board of National Missions of the Presbyterian Church Please see RGSGSERIES 12-6-14 for additional information on Black education in Georgia.