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Photographer: Anderson County by Howard Woody
Taken: 1922
Caption: Rosenwald's Reed Street School
Additional Description: The Julius Rosenwald Fund was established to promote the building of Southern black schoolhouses. The school board asked the fund to help replace the old Reed Street School. They accepted and Rosenwald contributed $1,600, while gifts totaled $11,400, and the state contributed $42,000 to erect this 12-teacher black schoolhouse. From 1914 to 1932 the Rosenwald Fund assisted in the building of 4,977 mainly rural brick schools in the South. The fund assisted 481 South Carolina schools with gifts totaling $463,000 or 15.68 percent of each school's costs.
Submitted: October 25, 2012, by Brian Scott of Anderson, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p224267
File Size: 0.367 Megabytes

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