1900's Education | Charter and By-Laws

Charter

By: General Education Board

Date: 1903

Source: General Education Board. Charter and By-Laws. New York, 1938, 1–5. Reprinted in Readings In American Educational History. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1951, 569–571.

About the Author: John D. Rockefeller (1839–1937), founder of the General Education Board, began his career as a bookkeeper after taking a short business course. In 1863, he started an oil refinery business with two partners but bought out the other partners in 1865. He organized the Standard Oil Company in 1870 and, by buying out other companies, came to control most of the oil refining in the United States. In 1896, Rockefeller turned his attention to giving away the bulk of his enormous fortune.

Introduction

By the end of the nineteenth century, education in the South was much in need of development and reform, though...