New Grants Give Out Millions to Preserve African-American History

[Disir]

But the grants also go to some lesser-known facets of the African-American experience. The Rosenwald Schools, for example, were a group of schools built for African-American children in the South in the early part of the 20th century. They are thought to have served at least one third of the the South’s black children, and they played a vital role in nurturing and empowering the nation’s black community during the Jim Crow era. An initiative called the Rosenwald Schools Mapping Project, which will use GIS data and story maps to collect information about the schools on a central website, has been funded with a $50,000 grant.

Holy Rosary Institute in Lafayette, Louisiana, a vocational and technical school, which educated thousands of African-American women who in turn went on to become influential teachers, doctors and other professionals within the black community is also beind recognized. The building has fallen into disrepair, and it is receiving $450,000 to stabilize the main building.




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Yay. There are thousands of stories that can be told here. Although much is done on a few of the stories on the civil rights movement there are others that are never shown the light. Maybe we can start seeing some movies that reflect this.
Rosenwald Schools | National Trust for Historic Preservation

 

[The Irish Ram]

1. They need to give out grants for science and math, and how to read, to propel black students to the head of the class and job market. Otherwise they will sit on the corner stoop and know who George Washington Carver is.

2. Give them an opportunity. Teach them what they need to get ahead. Teach them engineering. Teach them law, medicine....

 

[Disir]

Those exist.

This is for other things.

 

[whitehall]

The anti-Semitic attitude of today's Black leaders like Jesse Jackson (Hemietown) tends to ignore or obscure the fact that the money to build these schools came from a Jew named Julius Rosenwald who was president of Sears-Roebuck at the time.

 

[rightwinger]

1. They need to give out grants for science and math, and how to read, to propel black students to the head of the class and job market. Otherwise they will sit on the corner stoop and know who George Washington Carver is.

2. Give them an opportunity. Teach them what they need to get ahead. Teach them engineering. Teach them law, medicine....

Why can't you do both?