Cairo Rosenwald School was a school

School

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 for African-Americans located in Cairo, Sumner County

Sumner County, Tennessee

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, Tennessee

Tennessee

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. The school, completed in 1923, followed the architectural style of the Rosenwald School

Rosenwald School

A Rosenwald School was the name informally applied to over five thousand schools, shops, and teachers' homes in the United States which were built primarily for the education of African-Americans in the early twentieth century. The need arose from the chronic underfunding of public education for...

 design for a one-teacher African-American school. Its construction was funded by the African-American community, the public, and Rosenwald funds. Due to the consolidation of schools, the school was closed in 1959. The structure remains intact today, serving as a community center. It is listed with the National Register of Historic Places

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