The Trousdale County Archives and the Historical Society are sponsoring a traveling exhibit on Tennessee’s Rosenwald Schools.
The traveling exhibit was put together by the Tennessee State Museum and will be on display in the Archives building through the middle of September.
In the 1920s and 1930s, Julius Rosenwald helped finance the construction of close to five thousand schools for America’s black communities, who were too economically depressed to build modern schools for their children.
Rosenwald had made his fortune as part owner of Sears and Roebuck.
This exhibit will be of special interest to Trousdale County residents, as our first Ward School was built using funds from Rosenwald.
The exhibit gives the history and displays photos of some of the 354 schools built in Tennessee, as well as their students and teachers.
Open free to the public, the exhibit can be seen during the archives operating hours, which are every Wednesday from 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m.
Hartsville’s first Ward school burned in 1944 and was replaced by the present Ward School. That building has recently received a large grant to help turn the building into a community center for all the residents of Trousdale County.
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