{"value"=>"<p>The Thomas Jesse Jones Files sub-subseries contains significant correspondence from 1912 to 1919 when Jones served as agent for the Fund while working for the United States Bureau of Education conducting the <em>Negro Education</em> study. The correspondence relates to Jones's school site visits, his support for Booker T. Washington's theories of education, Washington's death in 1915, and disagreements with W. E. B. Du Bois. Also significant is material relating to his work on the first African Education Commission (1920-1923), including an extensive diary of his travels with the Commission, and correspondence with Fund secretary Leo A. Roy during Jones's numerous trips to Africa between 1924 and 1936. There is also personal correspondence regarding family and financial matters, as well as miscellaneous speeches, articles, and memoranda.</p>"}