Preview | Unlocking the Doors of Opportunity
Preview: 2/23/2023 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
The story behind efforts to create schools for Black children in rural NC under Jim Crow.
In the early 1900s, North Carolina and other Southern states largely ignored their responsibility to provide education for rural Black children. Learn how educator Booker T. Washington and philanthropist Julius Rosenwald hatched a plan that broke Jim Crow’s grip on funding for Black schools. The results helped change the South and the nation, one student at a time.
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PBS North Carolina Presents is a local public television program presented by PBS NC
Preview | Unlocking the Doors of Opportunity
Preview: 2/23/2023 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
In the early 1900s, North Carolina and other Southern states largely ignored their responsibility to provide education for rural Black children. Learn how educator Booker T. Washington and philanthropist Julius Rosenwald hatched a plan that broke Jim Crow’s grip on funding for Black schools. The results helped change the South and the nation, one student at a time.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- [Narrator] Keeping Blacks uneducated was one of Jim Crow's goals.
- The object was to keep the minds of people enslaved.
The Rosenwald schools turned that around.
- Buildings are important, they say something, and Rosenwald schools said something.
- The Rosenwald school was the ladder, up which many of us stepped.
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