Through its funding of the Hampton Institute the fund also provided for the annual Hampton Negro Conference held there. About 1915, the Peabody Education Fund was dissolved, with some of its assets transferred to the Slater Fund.In 1937, the Southern Education Foundation was formed by merging the assets and resources of the Slater Fund, the Negro Rural School Fund, and the Virginia Randolph Fund. See also Rosenwald Fund (1917–48) built many rural schools for African-American children References Sources Citations Further reading Reports of the United States Commissioner of Education, published annually (Washington, D. C.) Education finance in the United States African Americans and education African-American history between emancipation and the civil rights movement Philanthropic organizations based in the United States 1882 establishments in New York (state) Educational institutions established in 1882 1937 disestablishments in New York (state) Educational institutions disestablished in 1937