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Julius Rosenwald Fund Archives. Special Collections, John Hope and Aurelia Franklin Library, Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee. A microfilm of the documents is available at the Amistad Center, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Julius Rosenwald Papers. Special Collections Research Center, Joseph Regenstein Library, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. Microfilm available at Kent State University Library.

Booker T. Washington Papers. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Microfilm available.

R.R. Moton and Clinton J. Calloway Papers. Special Collections and University Archives, Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, Alabama.

County Board of Education Records. Held by county archives, county school systems, or county governments.

State Department of Education Records. Held by state archives.

Jackson Davis Collection. Special Collections Library, University of Virginia. Available on-line at http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/collections/jdavis/ Photographs include Rosenwald and other African American schools, as well as students and teachers.

Personal Papers and Photograph Collections. Historical documents and photographs taken by the state agents for Negro schools and Rosenwald building agents may be preserved by the special collections and archives at historic black colleges and universities as well as state archives.


PUBLICATIONS BY THE ROSENWALD FUND AND RELATED AGENCIES
The Negro Rural School and Its Relation to the Community. Tuskegee: Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute Extension Department, 1915.

Dresslar, Fletcher B. Report on the Rosenwald School Buildings. Nashville: Julius Rosenwald Fund, [1920].

Community School Plans. Nashville: Julius Rosenwald Fund, 1921, 1924, 1927, 1931.

For Better Schoolhouses. Nashville: Interstate School Building Service, 1929.

Improvement and Beautification of Rural Schools. Nashville: Julius Rosenwald Fund Southern Office, 1936.

Suggestions for Landscaping Rural Schools. Nashville: Julius Rosenwald Fund Southern Office, 1936.

Embree, Edwin R. Julius Rosenwald Fund: Review of Two Decades, 1917-1936. Chicago: Julius Rosenwald Fund, 1936.

Community Units: Supplement No. 2 to Julius Rosenwald Fund Community School Plans (Revised in 1931), 1941.

State Department of Education publications: biennial and annual reports of the state superintendent, bulletins, school building plans.

PUBLISHED HISTORIES OF ROSENWALD SCHOOLS AND BLACK EDUCATON
Anderson, James D. The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988.

Embree, Edwin R. and Julia Waxman. Investment in People: The Story of the Julius Rosenwald Fund. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1949.

Fairclough, Adam. Teaching Equality: Black Schools in the Age of Jim Crow. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2001.

Hanchett, Thomas W. “The Rosenwald Schools and Black Education in North Carolina,” North Carolina Historical Review 65 (October 1988): 387-444.

Harlan, Louis. Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983.

Hoffschwelle, Mary S. Rebuilding the Rural Southern Community: Reformers, Schools and Homes in Tennesse, 1900-1930. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1998.

Smith, Samuel L. Builders of Goodwill: The Story of the State Agents of Negro Education in the South, 1910 to 1930. Nashville: Tennessee Book Company, 1950.

Turley-Adams, Alicestyne. Rosenwald Schools in Kentucky. Prepared for the Kentucky Heritage Council and the Kentucky African American Heritage Commission, 1977.

Werner, Morris R. Julius Rosenwald: The Life of a Practical Humanitarian. New York: Harper & Row, 1939.


PRESERVATION AND HISTORICAL AGENCIES
Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Silver Spring, Maryland.

National Park Service - National Register

National Trust for Historic Preservation.

National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers

North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office-Rosenwald Schools

 

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