circa 1920's

Conceived in the 1900's by black educator Booker T. Washington and his Tuskegee staff. The Rosenwald program represented a massive effort to improve black rural schooling in the South through public-private partnership. Rosenwald schools were also in Plymouth & Roper.

Marker is on Cherry Road 0.1 miles south of Ambrose Road, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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