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Photographer: Allen C. Browne
Taken: April 13, 2014
Caption: The Seminary School, A Rosenwald School
Additional Description: The Seminary School opened in 1927 due to community efforts and outside support. Douglass Wood donated the land. The African American community raised $1,000 to receive $900 from the Rosenwald Fund and over $4000 in public funding. This school was one of more than 5000 "Rosenwald School" buildings constructed in the first part of the 20th century due to this innovative program to improve chronically underfunded African American education in the South. Highly influenced by Booker T. Washington, Julius Rosenwald encouraged cooperation between blacks and whites by requiring both public funds and cash donations to obtain construction seed money from the Fund. Rosenwald, was a German-Jewish immigrant and chairman of Sears, Roebuck and Company. By his death in 1932, Rosenwald schools provided facilities. Close-up of photo on marker
Submitted: March 15, 2015, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p302733
File Size: 1.560 Megabytes

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