It has been expended chiefly in the study of the negro problem, in founding fellowships, and in making possible the valuable report on negro education already mentioned.

In 1914, Mr.Julius Rosenwald of Chicago offered to every negro rural community wishing to erect a comfortable and adequate school building a sum not to exceed $300, provided that the community would obtain from private or public funds at least as much more.
The interest of the General Education Board is not limited either to negro or even to Southern education, but it has done much for both.

This great foundation has paid salaries of state supervisors of negro schools in several States and has cooeperated with the Jeanes Fund in maintaining county supervisors of negro schools.

It has appropriated over half a million dollars to industrial schools and about one-fourth as much to negro colleges.

Farm demonstration work, of which more is said elsewhere, is also of aid to the negroes.