Virginia Randolph
Virginia Estelle Randolph (August 6, 1870 – March 16, 1958) was an African American educator in Henrico County, Virginia. She was named the United States' first "Jeanes Supervising Industrial Teacher" by her Superintendent of Schools, Jackson T. Davis, and she led a program funded by the Jeanes Foundation to upgrade vocational training throughout the U.S. South as her career progressed. Her work is widely associated with vocational education.. Two schools of the Henrico County Public Schools system were named in her honor.
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