From collection Candidates
In 1896 Julia F. Jones was a Municipal League candidate for the seventh ward school committee in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The previous year Jones had been a member of the campaign committee for electing school directors in the thirteenth ward. She ran again in 1897 for school director of the seventh ward as an Independent. Jones was a graduate and later school teacher at the Institute for Colored Youth in the city. Jones was an officers of the National League of Colored Women and president of the Philadelphia branch. She was one of the first African American women in the country to run for office.
