Thomas Jesse Jones

Thomas Jesse Jones (1873-1950) was a Welsh-American sociologist and educational administrator. He was Educational Director of the Phelps Stokes Fund from 1917 to 1946. W. E. B. DuBois accused Jones of systematically working to replace Black leaders with white and labelled Jones "that evil genius of the Negro race".

Life Thomas Jesse Jones was born on 4 August 1873 in Llanfachraeth, a village in Wales. His father was the village saddler, his grandfather the village blacksmith, and his mother was the local innkeeper. In 1884 the family emigrated to the United States, settling in Middleport, Ohio. Jones attended Washington and Lee University, and graduated from Marietta College, Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary.

Works

The sociology of a New York city block. New York: Columbia University Press, 1904. Negro education: a study of the private and higher schools for colored people in the United States. 2 vols. Washington: Government printing office, 1916. Educational adaptations: report of ten years' work of the Phelps-Stokes Fund, 1910-1920. New York : Phelps-Stokes Fund, 1920. Education in Africa; a study of West, South, and equatorial Africa by the African education commission, under the auspices of the Phelps-Stokes fund and foreign mission societies of North America and Europe. New York, Phelps-Stokes Fund, 1922. Education in East Africa : a study of East, Central and South Africa by the Second African Education Commission under the auspices of the Phelps-Stokes Fund, in cooperation with the International Education Board. New York: Phelps-Stokes Fund; London: Edinburgh House Press, 1925. Four essentials of education. New York: Charles Scribner, 1926. Essentials of civilization: a study in social values. New York: H. Holt and Co., 1929. (with Charles T. Loram, Harold B. Allen and Ella Deloria) The Navajo Indian problem: an inquiry sponsored by the Phelps-Stokes Fund. New York, 1939.