N.C. Highway Historical Marker Recognizes State's First Rosenwald School
October 02, 2017
October 02, 2017
RALEIGH, N.C., Oct. 2 -- The North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources issued the following news release:
With the end of Reconstruction following the Civil War, the hope of African Americans for education seemed lost. But in 1912 Sears and Roebuck founder Julius Rosenwald, in collaboration with Booker T. Washington, initiated a program for rural students in Alabama that spread throughout the South. The first of these Rosenwald Schools to be built in North Carolina was the War . . .
With the end of Reconstruction following the Civil War, the hope of African Americans for education seemed lost. But in 1912 Sears and Roebuck founder Julius Rosenwald, in collaboration with Booker T. Washington, initiated a program for rural students in Alabama that spread throughout the South. The first of these Rosenwald Schools to be built in North Carolina was the War . . .