Photographer Andrew Feiler at the Carver School in Coffee County, Georgia, working on his project documenting the sites of former Rosenwald schools. (Jim Cottingham/ via JTA)
A restored classroom at the Pine Grove School in Richland County, South Carolina, one of the Rosenwald schools funded by the Jewish philanthropist Julius Rosenwald to educate Black children in the segregated South. (Andrew Feiler/ via JTA)
Rep. John Lewis, who represented Georgia s 5th District for 33 years before his death in 2020, attended a Rosenwald school as a child. (Andrew Feiler/ via JTA)
A portrait of Jewish philanthropist Julius Rosenwald at the Noble Hill School in Bartow County, Georgia one of his namesake Rosenwald schools for Black children in the segregated South. (Andrew Feiler/ via JTA)
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According to The Washington Times also known as the Good Times last week the Biden administration made plans “to offer grants for U.S. history classes that teach critical race theory and the ‘1619 Project,’” which is a confection of The New York Times. Both critical race theory and the 1619 Project are based on the fundamental insight that slavery is, according to The Washington Times, “the centerpiece of the American narrative.”
Now, aside from the fact that there is not much a historian can say about people living in forced servitude for roughly 246 years, beyond that it was one of the gravest injustices in human history. Slavery was wrong when it was practiced here, and it took the Civil War to eliminate it. It has been wrong when it has been practiced in other countries, and it has been practiced in many other
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My parents were married in August of 1947 and bought their one and only house on 18th Avenue near Vicente just a year later, on their one-year anniversary. The newlyweds, still childless at that point, were especially impressed with the fact that St. Cecilia s School was just half a block away, a proximity that proved fortuitous in the years to come. Houses on the east side of 18th Avenue, between Vicente and Wawona, June 2009. - WNP photo
The house had been built in January of 1936 (according to the electrical permit posted in the garage) for a Mr. & Mrs. Galleazi, whose family manufactured accordions. According one of the neighbors, all of these original homes sold for about the same price, $6,500 in 1936. By the time my parents became the second owners in 1948, the price had exactly doubled to $13,000.
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