New exhibition honors legacy of Rosenwald School program | Richmond Free Press | Serving the African American Community in Richmond, VA

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.

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