The Southern Education Board was established in 1901 as the executive branch of the Conference for Education in the South. The Conference emerged from meetings in Capon Springs, West Virginia, in, 1898–1900. Its mission was promoting public education in the South as well as modern agricultural methods and rural community development. It closed in 1914. The director was Edgar Gardner Murphy, an Episcopal minister from Montgomery, Alabama. Leading Board members included Robert Curtis Ogden (1836-1913), president; Charles D. McIver (1860- 1908), secretary;

George Foster Peabody George Foster Peabody (; July 27, 1852 – March 4, 1938) was an American banker and philanthropist. Early life He was born to George Henry Peabody and Elvira Peabody (''née'' Canfield) as the first of four children. Both parents were New En ...

(1852-1938), treasurer; Edwin A. Alderman (1861-1931); William H. Baldwin (1863-1905); Wallace Buttrick (1853-1926); J.L.M. Curry (1825-1903); Charles W. Dabney (1855-1945); George Sherwood Dickerman (1843-1937); Hollis B. Frissell (1851-1917); H.H. Hanna; Walter Hines Page (1855-1918); and Albert Shaw (1857-1947). It was related to a series of philanthropic organizations directed at the South, including the Southern Conference for Education and Industry, the Southern Educational Association, and the Southern Education Society. Its records are held by the Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Se
"Southern Education Board Records, 1898-1925" (Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2023).
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* Allison, Clinton B. "The Conference for Education in the South: An Exercise in 'Noblesse Oblige' " ''Journal of Thought'' (1981): 39–55
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* Harlan, Louis R. "The Southern Education Board and the race issue in public education." ''Journal of Southern History'' 23.2 (1957): 189–202
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* Harlan, Louis R. ''Separate and unequal: Public school campaigns and racism in the southern seaboard states, 1901-1915'' (1958) pp 75–101
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* White, Ronald C. "Beyond the Sacred: Edgar Gardner Murphy and a Ministry of Social Reform." ''Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church'' 49.1 (1980): 51–69
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