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In 1911, Booker T. Washington met Julius Rosenwald. This meeting between the leading Black educator in America and the president of the world’s largest department store—Sears, Roebuck and Company—would be the foundation of the Rosenwald Schools. The institutions transformed education for hundreds of thousands of Black children in the segregated South.

2024 marks the 250th anniversary of when Williamsburg’s Bray School initially closed. It now has a permanent home as the newest historic site in Colonial Williamsburg. It reopens in September.

By Ben Finley | The Associated Press The Bray School is aligned with a set foundation at its new location in Colonial Williamsburg in Williamsburg, Va. on

In 1911, Booker T. Washington met Julius Rosenwald. This meeting between the leading Black educator in America and the president of the world’s l

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