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The Shiloh–Rosenwald School
in the town of Notasulga in Macon County, Alabama, was a collaboration between Tuskegee Institute’s
President Booker T. Washington
and Julius Rosenwald, CEO of Sears and Roebuck, beginning in 1913.
This school and more than 5,000
others across 15 states were
considered “schools of hope.“
Shiloh was one of the first six
Rosenwald schools built in the U.S.
in the town of Notasulga in Macon County, Alabama, was a collaboration between Tuskegee Institute’s
President Booker T. Washington
and Julius Rosenwald, CEO of Sears and Roebuck, beginning in 1913.
This school and more than 5,000
others across 15 states were
considered “schools of hope.“
Shiloh was one of the first six
Rosenwald schools built in the U.S.
Macon County’s Shiloh Rosenwald School in 2010, after it underwent extensive restoration. (Photo: Dorothy Walker)
Find more interesting historical facts at AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY 365.
