Virgie Lee Jones Scholarship Fund

Virgie Lee Jones was the daughter of a sharecropper who became an educator and dedicated her life to investing in young minds. Virgie taught lower elementary students in a small town that didn’t favor its Black population. Like many other black people, she could not attend large, predominately white institutions. So, she forged a path to Southern University, a historically black college. Virgie’s investment into her education allowed her three children to all finish college. Her legacy also inspired her granddaughter Alicia to attend Southern University. Alicia became her ancestors' wildest dream. She completed 2 undergraduate degrees: one in Biology and the other in Clinical Laboratory Sciences. She completed a Master's in Biology and took those credentials to become an educator like her grandmother. Alicia has now completed a Doctorate in Education with the hopes of inspiring many other young minds as her grandmother inspired her.