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Rosenwald Schools[edit]

The Rosenwald School project built more than 5,000 schools, shops, and teacher homes in the United States primarily for the education of African-American children in the South during the early 20th century. The project was the product of the partnership of Julius Rosenwald, a Jewish-American clothier who became part-owner and president of Sears, Roebuck, and Company and the African-American leader, educator, and philanthropist Booker T. Washington, who was president of the Tuskegee Institute.[1]

Rosenwald schools in Spotsylvania County, Virginia[edit]

Name Built[2][3] Location City Status[2][3] Note[2][3]
Massaponax School 1922-23 near 3836 Summit Crossing Road

38°12′13″N 77°28′08″W / 38.20357°N 77.46895°W / 38.20357; -77.46895 (Massaponax School)

Fredericksburg demolished two teacher. 1942 Guinea USGS shows the school across the road from the church.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Deutsch, Stephanie (2015). You Need a Schoolhouse: Booker T. Washington, Julius Rosenwald, and the Building of Schools for the Segregated South. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press. ISBN 0-8101-3127-7.
  2. ^ a b c "Rosenwald School Architectural Survey". Preservation Virginia. Preservation Virginia. Retrieved 27 February 2022.
  3. ^ a b c "Fisk University Rosenwald Fund Card File Database". Fisk University. Retrieved 27 February 2022.