Rosenwald School

We're looking at global universities.

And in the conversation, the concept of the Rosenwald School, which was a 19th, early 20th century formation here in the United States, particularly in the South, came up where Black folk raised money and built schools.

And they got assistance, grants from Julius Rosenwald, who was a part owner of Sears, which meant they raised the money.

They pawned their cows.

And then Rosenwald gave them money, part of which came from what they bought from Sears anyway.

So there's an act of self-determination.

And I asked them, did any of you know Whether or not anyone in your family went to a Rosenwald school.

My mother went to the Uchi Valley Rosenwald school in Alabama, for example.

He's a great example.

There's a portrait of him on our school wall, um, in addition to additional great minds like, um, Booker T. Washington, who helped found Tuskegee and helped build over 5,000 schools with Rosenwald.

That was a, a big discovery I made, uh, learning about the Rosenwald Schools and Booker T. Washington's, uh, participation in that through after emancipation.

Um, and of course, one of my favorites, Frederick Douglass.

So these are great examples of individuals who, um, were not victims, right? They, they were not victimized.