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The Rosenwald Fund

Rural schools for African Americans need to be given a chance to grow and become more available to all. The Rosenwald Fund was part of the answer. It was a philanthropic fund focused on the physical schoolhouse compared to previous funds looking to provide aid of resources and teachers to these schools.

 

Click on the buttons below to explore what the fund was and who was behind it. Or learn some of the details about the buildings themselves and the importance of a good schoolhouse. Or branch out from the schoolhouse and see how else the fund aided African Americans of the time through the Rosenwald Fellowship.

Image 1: Julius Rosenwald and African American Children. c 1920. Photograph. Fisk University John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library Special Collections/The Ciesla Foundation. https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/movies/review-rosenwald-a-singular-portrait-of-a-mogul-and-philanthropist/2015/08/26/07382118-4817-11e5-8ab4-c73967a143d3_story.html?utm_term=.cffe3142fc07.

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