Water was drawn and carried from a farmer’s well up the road. Dunn’s Chapel was a “Rosenwald school,” one of nearly 5,000 such schools built across 15 Southern states from 1912 to 1932.
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 ...
CHEROKEE COUNTY, Texas (KLTV) - Cynthia Matlock didn’t plan on becoming an author when she went looking for her parents’ old school. Several years ago, she went looking for their Rosenwald ...
Built between 1912 and 1937, Rosenwald Schools were a network of nearly 5,000 schoolhouses created to get Black children in the segregated South access to an education. Many have been demolished ...
Ralph Wilcox of the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program and the Division of Arkansas Heritage are being recognized for their attempts to preserve the structures and history remaining of the ...
Rosenwald High School is a public school located in Panama City, FL, which is in a small city setting. The student population of Rosenwald High School is 345 and the school serves 6-12.
Rosenwald Dunbar Elementary School is a public school located in Nicholasville, KY, which is in a fringe town setting. The student population of Rosenwald Dunbar Elementary School is 547 and the ...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Congress passed an act that launches the path toward a national park being named for Julius Rosenwald, the Jewish philanthropist who established thousands of schools for ...