The Jeanes Supervisors: Striving to Educate (A Video Documentary), by Vernon F. Clarke. Atlanta, GA: Breaking New Ground Productions (2005 Beecher Road, Atlanta, GA 30311), 1995. 58 minutes, 40 seconds. $60.00, institutions; $50.00, individuals (prices include shipping and handling); VHS format, color and black-and-white. Reviewed by Michael Fultz, University of Wisconsin-Madison. The educational program described in this hour-long video documentary was initiated around turn of 20th century, when ferocity of racist hatred was openly proclaimed throughout South and very provision of schools for Black children was deeply contested. In 1907, Anna T. Jeanes, an elderly Quaker woman from Philadelphia, morally dismayed about state of tiny rural schools provided for African American children in South, was urged to act on her concern by Black educators such as Booker T. Washington. Jeanes subsequently provided a $1 million endowment to create a fund which bore her name, Anna T. Jeanes Fund, also known as Rural Negro School Fund, Inc. The purpose of fund was, literally and figuratively, to provide the next needed thing for African American education and African American communities in oppressive, segregated South when, in all too many cases, everything needed to be done. As a result of historic neglect of Black schools by White public officials, Jeanes Supervisors often served as ad hoc county superintendents of African American education, working to upgrade schools, improve teaching practices, and stimulate and coordinate community improvement efforts through a wide range of activities. Sad to say, however, despite their heroic efforts, Jeanes Supervisors mostly toiled in anonymity. Although occasional profiles and commentary on their activities in rural Black communities of South have been featured in bulletins issued by various Black state teachers' associations, their epic story has never fully been told. The Jeanes Supervisors: Striving to Educate provides a vital piece of this historic educational saga. Although video does not provide specific figures, by 1937-38 an estimated 474 Jeanes Supervisors were working in 505 counties in 13 southern states and in Virgin Islands. As it does make clear, however, their tasks were many. Jeanes Supervisors, majority of whom were African American women, served as ambassador-advocates, liaison-diplomats, teachers, curriculum specialists, in-service providers, health workers, and community organizers. The Fund's activities peaked during 1940s, spanning decades when funding for African American schools was unconscionably low, and culminated in 1960s, when, ironically, twisted visions of integration forced displacement of hundreds of Black educators. The persistent efforts of Jeanes Supervisors, including delicate role they played in negotiating with often hostile forces in White community, provided exemplary service in critical times, and program provided living models of dedication and perseverance in cause of uplifting African American education. …