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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