By Neill Caldwell neill.caldwell@thestokesnews.com The Walnut Cove Colored School, built in 1921, now houses the Senior Center. Neill Caldwell | The Stokes News An early architectural plan for a Rosenwald School, of which 5,000 were built across the South. Julius Rosenwald and Booker T. Washington became friends and set out to try to correct the inequality of education for young blacks. A class photo at the school in Walnut Cove, some time in the 1930s. The historic marker in front of the building outlines the story of the Colored School. WALNUT COVE — It was a very unusual partnership – the Jewish CEO and the African American scholar. But together they made a huge difference in the lives of uncountable numbers of black children in the South.