“The education, liberatory spirit, and bonds of childhood have endured over decades...It’s incredible.” Read more mary__retta on the crucial program that provided quality education for Black students during the Jim Crow era. ⬇️
,” which meant that Black communities had to donate enough financial and other resources to match the contribution of the Rosenwald program. This meant that Black people, who were severely underpaid and already paying local taxes that funded public schools, still had to pay additional funds to receive the quality education that was denied to them by the state.
Kimberly C. Ransom, a historian of African American education currently working at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, toldthat she has spent the last six years working with a group of Rosenwald alumni to transform theand community center. The school is of personal importance to Ransom as it sits on land previously owned by her ancestors in Pickens County.
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