Reminiscences of J. Curtis Dixon, 1967.

Biographical Note

Educator

Scope and Contents

Family background, early schooling; Mercer and Columbia Universities; World War I; career as teacher, principal, businessman, school superintendent in Richland, Georgia; State Supervisor of School Administration and Finance; county schools survey; State agent for Negro schools; graduate work, Teachers College; General Education Board; Rosenwald Fund; rural education conferences; Jeanes teachers; Vice Chancellor, University of Georgia, 1940-1942; Vice President, Mercer University, 1942-1946; Southern Education Foundation, 1945-1965: moving headquarters to Atlanta, staff, financing, programs, travel, charter; analysis of Negro educational institutions; training for principals; effect of 1954 desegregation decision

Subjects

• African Americans--Education.
• African Americans--Segregation.
• Dixon, J. Curtis (John Curtis), 1894-1975--Interviews.
• Education, Rural.
• Education--Georgia.
• Educational fund raising.
• General Education Board (New York, N.Y.)
• Hawkins, Robbin, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Julius Rosenwald Fund.
• Mercer University.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Philanthropy.
• School administrators--Interviews.
• Southern Education Foundation.