Rosenwald rural school building program was an initiative implemented by Julius Rosenwald and Booker T. Washington to improve African American education.
The Rosenwald Rural Schools Initiative was a program explicitly designed to narrow racial schooling gaps in the South during this period of Black relative progress. The Initiative was the result of
a collaboration between Booker T. Washington, the principal of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, and Chicago businessman and philanthropist Julius Rosenwald. The two men developed a matching grant program that, between 1913 and 1931, facilitated the construction of almost 5,000 schoolhouses for Southern rural Black children. By the time the program ended, we estimate that approximately 36 percent of Southern rural Blacks of school-age could have attended a Rosenwald school. (Taken from https://www.chicagofed.org/digital_assets/publications/working_papers/2009/wp2009_26.pdf) Anne E. Colbert Rosenwald School located in Dayton, Texas is one of the historically recognized schools.
