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Rosenwald Schools: remembering rural education. For Black History Month, Dr. Hanchett looks back at country schools -- both white and black -- with emphasis on the Rosenwald School movement which built more than 5000 African American schools across the South.
Tom Hanchett is the author of the definitive study, Sorting Out the New South City: Race, Class, and Urban Development in Charlotte, 1875-1975, now in a second edition (UNC Press, 2019).