In Southeastern NC familiar local examples of Rosenwald schools include the brick Williston school on 10th Street in Wilmington, and the wooden Browntown School (now an antiques store) on route 17 just south of Hampstead Pender County probably has the highest proportion of surviving Rosenwald schools in North Carolina, with at least eight Rosenwald buildings still North Carolina’s African American communities demonstrated their commitment to education by building 813 Rosenwald schools, more than any other state Progressive building plans were provided by the Rosenwald Fund, southern African Americans their first recognizable public spaces The local school board had to commit to cover the remaining cost of the building, and to operate it as a public schoolĪlthough effective in leveraging school construction, African Americans’ contributions constituted double-taxation, as they paid taxes but then had to additional funds to build public schools The Rosenwald Fund provided matching grant support that typically 20-25% of the cost of a schoolĬommunities usually contributed at least 25% of the cost of the school, and also donated land and labor The National Trust notes that by 1928, one-third of rural African American students in the South attended Rosenwald schools, and the schools eventually served over 650,000 studentsīy 1932 when the Rosenwald Fund ceased school-building operations, it had contributed over $4.3 million to school construction, while African communities had contributed over $4.7 million (excluding land and labor) With assistance from the Rosenwald Fund, communities in 15 states built schools, 217 teachers’ homes, and 163 shop buildings by 1932 The Rosenwald school building program expanded rapidly, and the Rosenwald Fund was established in 1917 to further Rosenwald’s philanthropic efforts Washington, the founder of the Tuskegee Institute, persuaded Julius Rosenwald, the president of Sears, Roebuck & Co., to support the construction of six primary schools for African American children
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