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Historical Highway MarkersJulius Rosenwald High SchoolO-61
Originally known as Northumberland County Training School, this institution opened in 1917, under principal John M. Ellison. Local African Americans raised more than $7,000 to build the school and received additional funding from the Rosenwald Fund. Julius Rosenwald, chairman of the board of directors of Sears Roebuck and Co., created this fund in 1917 to finance the building of rural southern schools for blacks. Some 5,000 Rosenwald schools were built in 15 states, including 308 in Virginia. On 12 Nov. 1932, under its principal the Reverend Dr. Henry M. Ruffin, the school was renamed the Julius Rosenwald High School. It closed in 1958.
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References/Bibliographic Citation: John Fulton Lewis, “In Building Schools for Black Youths, Rosenwald Opposed Foundation Perpetuity,” Community Forum September/October 1998: 7-8; Eleanor Robinson Morris, “The Julius Rosenwald High School of Northumberland County, Virginia,” Bulletin of the Northumberland County Historical Society 29 (1992): 61-68; Rappahannock Record, 6 August 1919. |