In 2002, the National Trust joined forces with grassroots activists, local officials, and preservationists to help raise awareness of this important but little-known segment of our nation’s history, placing Rosenwald Schools on its 11 Most Endangered Historic Places list. It was the social center of the neighborhood. Rosenwald’s legacy rests not in the legal entity of a perpetual foundation but rather. Julius Rosenwald, president of Sears Roebuck established a foundation that funded 4,977 schools for African Americans throughout the south from 1912 to 1932. Per the wishes of its founder, who died in 1932, the Julius Rosenwald Fund became the first foundation to deliberately spend all of its endowment. It is full of memories for the residents who attended school there, as well as attended vibrant community events. By the 1930s, more than 5,300 Rosenwald schools covered the American South. The Smithville Rosenwald School became a community center that served as a hub for social life and children’s activities in Smithville. Today these schools are on the endangered list of. When a 1954 Supreme Court ruling declared segregation in education unconstitutional, Rosenwald Schools often became obsolete, abandoned or demolished. In the early 1900s Rosenwald schools were built to educate African American children throughout the South. The 4,978 Rosenwald schools changed the world for African Americans in the South, built through a unique partnership between white mail-order magnate Julius Rosenwald and Black educator and leader. The Rosenwald School was for local black children to attend in the 1920s when schools were segregated. The Smithville neighborhood is home to a historic Rosenwald school. Rosenwald partnered with African American communities across the South to help fund the construction of more than 5,300 schools and related buildings for. The effort has been called the most important initiative to advance black education in the early 20th century. Washington of the Tuskegee Institute and Julius Rosenwald, philanthropist and president of Sears Roebuck, built state-of-the art schools for African-American children across the South.
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