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Rosenwald Schools

  • Writer: Andrew J. Bramlett
    Andrew J. Bramlett
  • Feb 15, 2023
  • 1 min read

Philanthropist Julius Rosenwald founded thousands of schools for African Americans around the Southeastern United States. A Rosenwald School in Ashley County, Arkansas, is shown in this 1924 photograph. Each building was designed with large, spacious windows to take advantage of natural light.



Image: “Rosenwald School” by Jackson Davis (1924). From Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

 
 
 

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