Rosenwald Schools

Rosenwald Schools

African American Schools Post 1900
Standards of Learning VS.1a, VS.1g, VS.8b, USII.1a, USII.1d, USII.4c

Julius Rosenwald, President of Sears & Roebuck, was not only an entreprenuer, but he was also a philanthropist. Rosenwald created the Rosenwald Fund to help build schools for disadvantaged African Americans in the South during the segregation era. By 1932, the Rosenwald Fund helped build over 5300 schools in the South. Earlier histories have reported that there were three Rosenwald Schools in Louisa County: the Louisa Training School, the historic Shady Grove School, and a third school that has not yet been positively identified but what Louisa County historians believe to be the Mechanicsville school. These photographs are pictures of the three Louisa County Rosenwald Schools (Left: Louisa Training, Middle: Mechanicsville, Right: Shady Grove). To learn more, visit the African American Schools of Louisa County website.

Louisa County Historical Society Collections

Louisa County Historical Society

1920s

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Photograph

Photograph

LTS: 054_2008_551_32, Mechanicsville: 054_2008_551_18, Shady Grove: 054_2008_551_2

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