Rosenwald ** schools in Virginia

Rosenwald ** schools in Virginia

Julius Rosenwald President of Sear and Roebuck helped provide funding to help the education of African American students. The Fairfax Rosenwald School was built in 1925-1926 on School Street. Rosenwald schools were educational facilities built with the assistance of the Rosenwald rural school building program, an initiative to narrow racial schooling gaps in the South by constructing better, more-accessible schools for African Americans. In Virginia, the initiative helped fund 382 schools and support buildings in seventy-nine counties.