Okahumpka is a small, rural town in central Florida, just about an hour and a half north of Tampa and the community is trying to store an old Rosenwald school that Black children attended.
Julius Rosenwald became the president of Sears in 1908. With the Jewish ideals of tzedakah (charity) and tikkun olam (repairing the world) and the work of educator Booker T. Washington as inspiration, he established the Rosenwald Fund in 1917 and turned his resources to causes including the exclusion of Black children from education. His program built more than 5,300 schools in 15 states.