We spoke with scholars and national park leaders about the Rosenwald schools’ history and the fight to preserve their legacy. Their graduates, many of whom went on to stage the civil rights movement, are still alive.Įducation Week photographed 17 so-called Rosenwald schools across the South. Meet the Jew who built 5,300 schools for black children in the 1900s Deep South New film, ‘Rosenwald,’ tells story of philanthropist Julius Rosenwald who transformed black lives, including. This story has been largely washed from our nation’s collective memory but some of those 5,000 school houses that Black communities built and staffed, still stand in plain sight. Washington, the principal of Tuskeegee Institute, worked with Black communities across the south to build more than 5,000 schools for Black children.Īs Republicans and Democrats today debate what public school students should learn about America’s racist past, historians are attempting to archive how Black parents responded when our country’s school system systemically shut Black students out of their public school system. In 2021 the Campaign issued a report on the 56 recommended Rosenwald School facilities, which contains multipage summaries of the 34 we visited. 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. Campaign representatives visited 33 Schools and the teacher home in 12 states. Julius Rosenwalds contribution to the education of the nations Black students deserves to be commemorated in Maryland and beyond.
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