Black Texans Built More Than 400 Schools When the State Would Not

In 1921, the Black families of Hill Prairie, in Bastrop County, built a two-teacher schoolhouse. The Rosenwald Fund in Chicago sent $800—equivalent to $15,000 in today’s dollars. The county sent nothing. In total, the families raised $1,630 themselves, more than two-thirds of the cost, and deeded the finished building to the public school district that […] The post Black Texans Built More Than 400 Schools When the State Would Not appeared first on The Texas Observer.