Rosenwald Schools
Woodlawn School ninth graders Quinn Schneider and Jake Johnson won first place in the state-level National History Day Competition in May for this documentary on the Rosenwald Schools, a group of more than 5,000 schools for African-Americans funded by Sears & Roebuck president Julius Rosenwald in the early 20th [...]
Booker T. Washington’s Up From Slavery
W.E.B. Du Bois’ The Souls of Black Folk
Carter G. Woodson’s The Rural Negro
Carter G. Woodson’s The Mis-Education of the Negro
The Southern Workman, various volumes online.
The Crisis, various volumes online.
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We do not have a photo of the original Rosenwald School in Norwood, but we do have a photo of the teacher’s home.
Norwood Teacher’s Home
Here is a photo of the Norwood Black School in 1917 (pre-Rosenwald). Principal Professor H. S. Sellers is seated front right. Classes were held in Bennet [...]
Fisk University Rosenwald Database
Search the Fisk database for Rosenwald building information: http://rosenwald.fisk.edu/?module=search (more information from the National Trust for Historic Preservation).
Rosenwald School Day Program. Negro School Improvement Day Program of Exercises, Friday, March 6th, 1931. The Julius Rosenwald Fund for [...]
