[1] Their main goal is to promote quality education for traditionally disadvantaged students, including the poor and African Americans.
SEF provides research, policy analysis and programming in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia.
[2] The phrase "Southern Education Foundation: Since 1867" refers to the Foundation's evolution from the Peabody Education Fund.
Founded of necessity due to damage caused largely by the American Civil War, the Peabody Education Fund was established by George Peabody in 1867 for the purpose of promoting "intellectual, moral, and industrial education in the most destitute portion of the Southern States."
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