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This album is a work in progress*
Topics: Rosenwald schools, Equalization schools, school segregation in SC, Brown v. Board of Education
Audience: Grades 11 - College
This album is intended to accompany an intensive field experience where teachers from South Carolina participate in a series of visits to multiple local historical sites. The local teachers will explore the built environments of schools that exclusively served African American students during the prolonged period of segregation.
The album exists to connect local histories, descriptions of administrative policies, and illustrations of student experiences to the larger theme of segregated schooling in South Carolina.
Key Learning Objective:
- Participants will develop a more nuanced understanding of place as it relates to schooling environments
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Ben, There are definitely Rosenwald School sources at loc.gov but I have not seen any from South Carolina. You may need to go into local S.C. archives for those. Have you looked at the S.C. Picture Project? They have a Rosenwald School collection with images and commentary.
The National Parks Service has published a lesson plan on The Rosenwald Schools Progressive Era Philanthropy in the Segregated South. There is a link section about South Carolina that includes maps, charts and images.
Last year one of our Leadership attendees from Georgia created an album about Rosenwald Schools in Georgia. She has some sources that relate to all of the Segregaged South.
Here are some newspaper articles about the Rosenwald Schools built in South Carolina from SC papers: Yorkville Enquirer (Yorkville, S.C.), March 9, 1923 + more articles.
Hi Benjamin,
I concur with Julie Schaul, about the newspapers. Chronicling America is a treasure trove of sources on Rosenwald for SC, especially for the grades you are focusing on.
131 references for Rosenwald in the search: https://www.loc.gov/collections/chronicling-america/?ops=AND&qs=Rosenwald&searchType=advanced&location_state=south+carolina
As Ann mentioned, South Carolina has some great resources gathered just for the state.
SCEqualization Schools http://www.scequalizationschools.org/rosenwald-schools.html
CVSC talks about protecting the remaining schools, which is a wonderful way to tie the past to the present: https://www.cvsc.org/rosenwald/
This site relates to the Rosenwald Schools Trail: https://scrosenwaldtrail.org/
The Low Country Digital History Initiative is great too: https://ldhi.library.cofc.edu/exhibits/show/equalization-schools/move-toward-equality-ii
For other repositories, The Caroliniana Library is really special and has some outstanding resources: https://www.carolinianararebooks.com/searchResults.php?category_id=214&action=browse&orderBy=
SC Archives: https://scdah.sc.gov/research-and-genealogy/resources/topics-african-american-history
Happy Hunting!
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