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Letter: The importance of Rosenwald Schools Comments re photo 85029 Student heading in to the Rosenwald School By Vonnie Kolbenschlag This photo is from Brenda Smith. She gave it to me to put in the files at the library when I was doing write-ups about Jackman School, which also was a Rosenwald School and it is pictured in the background. Jackman School was larger than the school at Flatwoods, which is the only one remaining of five Rosenwald Schools in Adair County. I am very glad the Flatwoods School is getting attention. It is a very important building representing the effort made to establish schools for African-American children who were denied a chance for education in the "white" schools. Many communities are realizing the significance of Rosenwald Schools that are on the endangered list. Julius Rosenwald was president of Sears Roebuck and became wealthy at the time rural free delivery was put in place. He realized that Sears catalogs could increase business. (What an impact the catalogs made!) He and his wife were Jewish and understood the impact of prejudice. Booker T. Washington contacted Rosenwald and did a lot of fund raising on his own to build thousands of schools in the states that denied children an education because of the color of their skin!! They established the matching grant that required input of time and labor on the community's part in order to get the funds for building. There's more interesting facts about these schools and teachers' homes, but this is enough for now. This story was posted on 2019-09-10 08:06:56
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