Database contains information about historical Rosenwald schools in the southern United States. It may be searched by: Historic Name, Current Name, Building Plans, Building Type, Budget Year, County, and or State.

Contains the historic context and inventory analysis for the 121 paged report ,“The Campaign To Create a Julius Rosenwald & Rosenwald Schools National Historical Park.” The mission of the park is to “interpret the life and legacy of Julius Rosenwald and the enormous impact of the thousands of schools he helped build had on African American education in the twentieth century.” Contents include: Julius Rosenwald’s Life and Philanthropy of Julius Rosenwald; African American Education and the Rosenwald Schools Program; Description of Rosenwald Schools; Evaluation of Rosenwald Schools.

Mabel O. Wilson, Columbia University’s Rupp Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, and a Professor in African American and African Diasporic Studies, explores Frank Lloyd Wright's design for the Rosenwald School at Hampton Institute, as well as the architect's attitudes toward race and interest in progressive education reform as reflected in the archives of the Museum of Modern Art..

Museum Director Kathe Hambrick shares the story of preserving a Rosenwald School by moving it from Convent to Donaldsonville. This school was one of 400 Rosenwald buildings, schools, teacher’s homes, and industrial shops throughout rural Louisiana.

A brief overview of Rosenwald Schools in Texas; mentions there were 500 Rosenwald schools in the state. Contains the recollections of five (5) former Rosenwald students.

Lesson plans for teaching about the Rosenwald schools and the Progressive era. Edited by Teaching with Historic Places staff; attempts to bring “important stories of historic places into classrooms across the country.” Notes the plan’s relationship to National Standards for History and the NCS Social Studies Standards. Includes a historic map, readings about the Rosenwald school building program, Rosenwald architecture, and the fate of the Rosenwald program.

Partial Contents: Video of the 2015 Rosenwald Schools Conference, “Sharing the Past – Shaping the Future”; “Voices of Rosenwald Schools,” a podcast by preservation specialist, Jeanne Cyriaque, promoting an awareness of the Rosenwald Schools in Georgia; link to pamphlet, Preserving Rosenwald Schools, by Mary S. Hoffschwelle, containing a history of the Rosenwald Schools, “Grassroots Guide to Preserving Rosenwald Schools,” and four case studies.

This StoryMap, created by that National Trust for Historic Preservation, provides the often neglected history of the African American community’s contribution to funding and building the Rosenwald schools, reflective of Booker T. Washington's educational and political philosophy of "self-help.” Notes that: “Most importantly, the Rosenwald grants were not the sole contributors to schools, but rather incentivized community fundraising and action. In fact, communities did not merely match, but often exceeded, what was provided by their Rosenwald grant.” Also includes graphs and evidence illustrating how the: “The pattern of communities surpassing the sum of the Rosenwald grant through fundraising would become common throughout the program's duration. In many ways, this was exactly Washington's vision: a matching grant model that prompted cooperation and collaboration from the bottom-up. It also helped that "funds" raised did not have to be money, but could include cash, land, labor, or materials for the school. This allowed black families with poor credit (usually a function of predatory and discriminatory practices of contemporary banks) to contribute to local Rosenwald initiatives.”