West Columbia, TX, United States
Columbia Rosenwald School. A grant from the Rosenwald Foundation of Chicago led to the establishment of a local school for African American students. The foundation represented a collaboration between Julius Rosenwald, president of Sears, Roebuck and Company, and the noted African American educator
Booker T. Washington to fund similar schools throughout the South. This is one of the few remaining of the hundreds built in Texas. The program began in 1917, and by the 1920s there was a strong need
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