How could I have never heard of Rosenwald schools? I found out there was not a comprehensive photographic account of the ...

Between 1912 and the unraveling of racial segregation in the 1950s and 1960s, Rosenwald Schools played a vital role in the education of African American children living in the Jim Crow rural South. On ...

Feiler, a fifth-generation Jewish civil rights activist, first learned about the Rosenwald Schools in 2015 over lunch with Janie Syriac, an African-American preservationist. When he discovered no ...

With Booker T. Washington’s help, Julius Rosenwald built 5,000 schools for Black students across 15 Southern states. Why do so few people know his name? Mostly, what Newell Quinton knew about his ...

The exhibit tells the story of how African American students in the South and Southwest gained access to education at Rosenwald Schools. Get top local stories in DFW delivered to you every morning ...

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The Jessamine County School Board Meeting and work session were held on Mon4. The meeting started with the Board celebrating ...

Rosenwald had been concerned about the lack of schools for Black children, especially across the South. He was disturbed by the 1896 Supreme Court ruling that enshrined Jim Crow laws and created ...

The first Rosenwald schools were constructed after Julius Rosenwald, chair of Sears, Roebuck, and Company in Chicago, donated $30,000 to the Tuskegee Institute in 1912 and authorized Booker T.