Photographer Andrew Feiler documented the last remaining Rosenwald Schools built to educate Black children during segregation. The exhibition ...

The Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum has a special exhibit called “A Better Life for Their Children.” Through photos, scale models, books, and a mock classroom, “A Better Life for Their ...

Water was drawn and carried from a farmer’s well up the road. Dunn’s Chapel was a “Rosenwald school,” one of nearly 5,000 such schools built across 15 Southern states from 1912 to 1932.

How could I have never heard of Rosenwald schools? I found out there was not a comprehensive photographic account of the program, so I set out to do exactly that.” Over the next three and a half ...

The Monroe County Rosenwald Schools Initiative was one of one of 14 Merit Award winners from across the state recognized at ...

Between 1912 and the unraveling of racial segregation in the 1950s and 1960s, Rosenwald Schools played a vital role in the education of African American children living in the Jim Crow rural South. On ...

With Booker T. Washington’s help, Julius Rosenwald built 5,000 schools for Black students across 15 Southern states. Why do so few people know his name? Mostly, what Newell Quinton knew about his ...

(WKRN) — In 1913, part-owner of Sears, Roebuck & Company Julius Rosenwald teamed up with Booker T. Washington to teach rural Black students. Their efforts helped build schools like the Rosenwald ...

The Smithville Rosenwald School, a century-old former pillar of the historically Black neighborhood of Smithville in Cornelius, is up for sale. The historic landmark on South Hill Street is listed ...

The exhibition tells the story of the Rosenwald School program, an ambitious early 20th century initiative led by Jewish businessman Julius Rosenwald and Black educator Booker T. Washington.