GEORGIA HISTORY  Schools  Rosenwald (African-American)

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Reflections   Nov 2004

Julius Rosenwald, Chicago philantropist and president of
Sears, Roebuck and Company, developed a foundation that
aided the construction of over 5,000 buildings in 15
southern states for African American youth in the early
1900s. 

The first Rosenwald Fund grant went to Booker T. Washington
for a rural African American school near Tuskegee Institute.
With these grants more than 242 schools were constructed in
Georgia.

Existing Georgia Rosenwald Schools

Banks  First African Baptist Church, Homer

Bartow   *Noble Hill, Cassville
	(Noble Hill - Wheeler Memorial Center)

Ben Hill  County Training School, Fitzgerald

Bleckley	Cochran

Brooks		Cross Roads, Dixie
Brooks		Grooverville

Camden		Kinlaw, Woodbine

Chattahoochee	Cusseta
Chattahoochee	Friendship

Cobb	Acworth

Coweta 	Walter B. Hill Industrial School, Turin

Dooly	Vieena High & Industrial School

Emanuel	Summertown
Emanuel	Summit

Glynn	*County Training School 
	(Risley High School)

Hancock	Sparta Agricultural & Industrial Institute

Hancock	East End, Sparta

Henry      County Trainign School, Hampton
	(recently demolished)

Jeff Davis	Tallahassee Community, Hazlehurt

Jefferson	County Training School, Louisville

Johnson		Dock Kemp,   Wrightsville

Lamar		Sugar Hill, Barnesville

Lowndes		*Dasher High, Valdosta
Lowndes		Mt. Zion, Valdosta

McIntosh	*Sapelo Island
		*Hog Hammock Historic District

Meriwether	Eleanor Roosevelt School, Warm Springs


Mitchell	Old Rockdale School, Camilla

Monroe		*Forsyth Normal & Industrial School
		*Teachers' Home (The Hubbard School)

Paulding	*Hiram Colored School

Peach		Allen Chapel A.M.E. Church

Peach		*Fort Valley High and Industrial School
		(Founders Hall, Fort Valley State College Historic District)

Pierce		Blackshear

Pike		Concord

Randolph	Howard Normal & Industrial School - Cuthbert

Washington	*T.J. Elder High and Industrial School Sandersville

* denotes those listed in the National Register of Historic Places