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Historical Highway MarkersWashington Graded SchoolC-35
Washington School was built here ca. 1924 to serve African American students. The Parents' Civic League, a local organization of African Americans, conveyed the land to the district school board. Contributions for the two-teacher building came from the black community ($1,200), Rappahannock County ($1,600), and the Julius Rosenwald Fund ($700). This fund, established by the president of Sears, Roebuck, and Co., and inspired by the work of Booker T. Washington, helped build more than 5,000 schools for black students between 1917 and 1932. Washington School closed in the mid-1960s, and county schools were desegregated by 1968. The school is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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References/Bibliographic Citation: Washington School National Register of Historic Places nomination, 2019. Fisk Rosenwald Database Marilyn P. Price, “Yesterday’s Graded Schools” Lewis S. Butler, “Washington, Virginia Colored School,” The Way We Were, 1870-1967 (1995). Elisabeth B. and C. E. Johnson Jr., Rappahannock County, Virginia: A History (1981). Kathryn Lynch and the Rappahannock Historical Society, Images of America: Rappahannock County (Mount Pleasant, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2007). |