Bojiboji1 (@bojiboji1.bsky.social)

Booker T. Washington with the partnership of Julius Rosenwald, founder of Sears built 5000 schools for Blacks at a time when segregation was the law of the land. Many of the teachers came from BTWs Tuskegee inst. Black history month needs more exposure. www.the74million.org/article/phot...

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Photo History: The Incredible True Story of How Booker T. Washington & the President of Sears Built 5,000 Schools for Generations of Southern Black Students In 1910, Julius Rosenwald, president of the Sears, Roebuck mail-order empire, read Booker T. Washington’s Up From Slavery, an account of his emancipation and founding of the Tuskegee Institute, origin... https://www.the74million.org/article/photo-history-the-incredible-true-story-of-how-booker-t-washington-the-president-of-sears-built-5000-schools-for-generations-of-southern-black-students/#:~:text=In%201910%2C%20Julius%20Rosenwald,middle%20class%20in%20the%20South.%E2%80%9D