Julius Rosenwald

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In 1912 Julius Rosenwald, a wealthy Illinois philanthropist, donated an initial $25,000 to Tuskegee Institute in Alabama for the construction of schools that would provide a vocational education to Black students. By 1932 the Julius Rosenwald Fund had donated additional funds that were used to build 4,977 school buildings throughout the South.

From Julius Rosenwald Fund: Review of Two Decades 1917-1936, by E. R. Embree

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