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Oglethorpe Rosenwald school

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Photograph of the Oglethorpe Rosenwald School in Oglethorpe, Georgia. School children are gathered in front of the simple white structure. Several children play on a slide, and a few children stand next to a bicycle.The Rural School Building Program of the Julius Rosenwald Fund provided financial grants for the construction of public schools for African Americans throughout the South. Between 1912 and 1932, contributions from the Rosenwald Fund helped to build 4,977 new schools for African Americans in fifteen southern states. In Georgia 242 schools were constructed with the aid of Rosenwald funds.
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  1. African American Children
  2. African American School Children
  3. African American Schools
  4. African American Students
  5. African Americans
  6. Bicycles
  7. Buildings
  8. Buildings, Structures, Etc
  9. Children
  10. Equipment And Supplies
  11. Georgia
  12. Julius Rosenwald Fund
  13. Oglethorpe
  14. Oglethorpe (Ga.)
  15. Playgrounds
  16. Rural Schools
  17. School Buildings
  18. School Children
  19. Schools
  20. Segregation
  21. Segregation In Education
  22. Students

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