Rosenwald schools: An example of African American commitment to education

Currie Rosenwald School, Pender County, NC (built 1927) Image by Claudia Stack, all rights reserved

Rosenwald schools were schools that were built between 1912 and 1932 by African American communities that received technical and financial assistance from Julius Rosenwald (mostly via the Rosenwald Fund). The Rosenwald Fund contribution, in turn, leveraged support from southern school boards that had been reluctant to build schools for African Americans. Rosenwald…