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According to The Campaign to Create a Julius Rosenwald & Rosenwald Schools National Historical Park, the two-teacher school was developed between 1926-1927 and has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 2009. The building is now owned by Cain鈥檚 Chapel Missionary Baptist Church, which sits adjacent to it.
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These Schools Served Black Students During Segregation. There鈥檚 a Fight to Preserve Them

By Jaclyn Borowski, Daarel Burnette II & Brooke Saias 鈥 July 13, 2021 1 min read
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These Schools Served Black Students During Segregation. There鈥檚 a Fight to Preserve Them

By Jaclyn Borowski, Daarel Burnette II & Brooke Saias 鈥 July 13, 2021 1 min read
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Civil rights leaders鈥 half-century struggle to get Black students access to all of America鈥檚 public schools, culminating in the Brown v. Board of 91制片厂视频 decision, is widely known. But the story of how Black people, just a handful of years after slavery ended, managed to grow a solid middle class without access to so many of America鈥檚 public schools is not nearly as well known.

This story involves Black ingenuity, an unusual friendship between a Jewish philanthropist and a Black educator, and a widespread desire among Black parents for their children to be provided the same quality of education as white children.

In the years following the abolishment of slavery, Black politicians鈥 number one Reconstruction victory was the establishment of a publicly-funded school system in the South. But soon after states promised in their constitutions that the public would get access to an adequate and equitable education, local politicians promptly banned Black, taxpaying parents from enrolling their children.

Aware of the crucial economic role education can play for the descendants of slaves, Julius Rosenwald, a Chicago philanthropist and Sears, Roebuck president, along with Booker T. Washington, the principal of Tuskeegee Institute, worked with Black communities across the south to build more than 5,000 schools for Black children.

As Republicans and Democrats today debate what public school students should learn about America鈥檚 racist past, historians are attempting to archive how Black parents responded when our country鈥檚 school system systemically shut Black students out of their public school system.
This story has been largely washed from our nation鈥檚 collective memory but some of those 5,000 school houses that Black communities built and staffed, still stand in plain sight. Their graduates, many of whom went on to stage the civil rights movement, are still alive.

91制片厂视频 Week photographed 17 so-called Rosenwald schools across the South. We spoke with scholars and national park leaders about the Rosenwald schools鈥 history and the fight to preserve their legacy.

Eric Harkleroad contributed to this article.

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