Alabama NewsCenter — Auburn Building Science, Architecture faculty digitally preserving Alabama’s disappearing Rosenwald Schools

By Mitch Emmons
Auburn University

In the early decades of the 1900s when racial segregation was the norm, almost 400 schools were built in rural Alabama as educational facilities for Black children.

Known as the Rosenwald Schools, between 1912 and 1932 they made it possible for Black children to get a formal education that otherwise would have been nearly impossible.

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