First School for Black Children in Paulding County ,Georgia to have a library.
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Sprinterman
N 33° 52.888 W 084° 45.590
16S E 707181 N 3751271
Located on the North edge of Dallas, Georgia on Hwy 61.
Waymark Code: WM2P0C
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 11/28/2007
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Known as the Hiram Colored School.
A Georgia Historical Marker in front of the school has the following text in " ".
"In 1912 Julius Rosenwald, President of Sears, Roebuck and Company, established the Rosenwald Fund to assist in community school construction of public schools for African-American students in the South. The Julius Rosenwald Fund assisted local communities who raised additional funds. By the 1930's one in every five rural southern schools for blacks had been constructed with aid from the Rosenwald Fund, a total of nearly five thousand schools throughout the South. The Hiram Rosenwald school opened in 1930 as the Hiram Colored School. It was the only Rosenwald school in Paulding County and, AT THE TIME, THE ONLY AFRICAN-AMERICAN SCHOOL WITH A LIBRARY IN THE COUNTY. The school operated from 1930 until 1955."
Erected by the Georgia Historical Society, U.N.I.T.E., and the Hiram Rosenwald School Preservation Committee
This was one of the first steps in reaching racial equality for black children.
FIRST - Classification Variable: Place or Location
Date of FIRST: 01/01/1930
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