One examination of the historic impact of the Rosenwald schools found that nearly 90 percent of Black students in Alabama were educated in Rosenwald schools from the time they were built, beginning in 1917, until schools were legally integrated—for some, not until the 1960s. Across the entire American South, more than six hundred thousand African American children attended a Rosenwald school.[21] But the true reach was far greater than just the hundreds of thousands of children who had the opportunity to receive an education. It’s easy to make the argument that the five thousand schools
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