Rosenwald schools---educating Black children in the segregated south

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..."About 5,000 state-of-the-art Rosenwald schools were constructed from 1913 to 1932, the fruit of a collaboration between Booker T. Washington and philanthropist Julius Rosenwald, part-owner of Sears, Roebuck & Co.
Their goal: improve public education for black children. By 1928, Rosenwald schools served 1 in 3 rural black children across a 15-state region of the South.
“When (Rosenwald) expanded the mail-order business, he became the Bill Gates of his day. And also, being a Jewish American, he was empathetic to the plight of African Americans.. .
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The Rosenwald schools program is probably one of the most pivotal educational stories in American history,” Leggs said.
“These schools also were the most architecturally advanced school plans of that time. The initial designers for the Rosenwald program included architect Robert Taylor, the first black graduate of MIT, (who was) considered the first professional black architect in America. George Washington Carver was the landscape designer,” he says.
“Not only is it an important story of education during the period of Jim Crow, but it’s also a story of achievement. It’s a story of community building. And it’s also a story related to architecture and design.”