History South
school ROSENWALD LINKS
 

National Trust - Rosenwald Initiative

Rosenwald Schools and Black Education in NC, Thomas Hanchett
This 1988 article on North Carolina's Rosenwalds remains one of the best introductions to the Rosenwald Schools story. (article temporarily off-line)

Fisk University's Rosenwald Card File
Created as the program ended in the early 1930s, this was an attempt to list every Rosenwald school ever built. Many entries include photos taken in the early 1930s.

Lowe's has a grant program to assist with rehabilitation of Rosenwald School buildings.

Peter Max Ascoli, Julius Rosenwald: The Man Who Build Sears, Roebuck and Advance the Cause of Black Education in the American South, Indiana University Press, 2006. (Available from Amazon)

Mary S. Hoffschwelle, The Rosenwald Schools of the American South. (University Press of Florida, 2006).

Adam Fairclough, A Class of Their Own: Black Teachers in the Segregated South (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007).

Carole Boston Weatherford, Dear Mr. Rosenwald - Children's book
 


STATE EFFORTS TO PRESERVE ROSENWALD SCHOOLS

ARKANSAS
The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture

GEORGIA
The New Georgia Encyclopedia
Georgia Historic Preservation Division

KENTUCKY
Kentucky Heritage Council

MARYLAND
Smithville School

NORTH CAROLINA
Survey of NC Rosenwald Schools
NC Museum of History

VIRGINIA
National Register, Part 1
National Register, Part 2


ROSENWALD SCHOOL BUILDINGS

WALNUT COVE COMMUNITY CENTER, NC

NOBLE HILL - WHEELER MUSEUM, GEORGIA

SWEET HOME CHURCH FELLOWSHIP BUILDING, TEXAS


ARTICLES

"Saving the Rosenwald Schools: Preserving African American History", Diane Granat, 2003

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