The former Mt. Zion School in Charles City that was founded with a donation from Julius Rosenwald.
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New exhibition honors legacy of Rosenwald School program
In 1911, Booker T. Washington met Julius Rosenwald. This meeting between the leading Black educator in America and the president of the world’s largest department store—Sears, Roebuck and Company—would be the foundation of the Rosenwald Schools. The institutions transformed education for hundreds of thousands of Black children in the segregated South.
