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.
Col Lafayette Jones Jr remembered as instrumental in preserving one of the earliest free Black settlements in U S dailypress.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dailypress.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
History of Rosenwald Schools focus of new exhibit at Virginia Museum of History in Richmond augustafreepress.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from augustafreepress.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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.