Mount Vernon Rosenwald School

Who’s Who

Start your week with inspiration! ✨ This #MotivationalMonday, President Kinloch highlights the powerful legacy of Ida B. Wells and her impact on truth, justice, and activism. Her fearless voice continues to inspire generations, including our Golden Bulls! Watch now! #JCSU #GoldenBullPride #idabwells

The Timken Salutes Black History Month

Born in New Canton, Virginia, in 1875, historian Carter G. Woodson would never see the first Black History Month. Best known for his 1933 book, ‘The Miseducation of the Negro,’ Woodson called attention to the scarcity of African Americans in the nation’s curriculum.

To bring those lost voices to forefront, Woodson founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (now the Association for the Study of African American Life and History) in 1915. The following year, he launched ‘The Journal of African American History,’ one of the earliest African American scholarly journals.

In 1926, Woodson founded the first Negro History Week in February to coincide with the birthdays of President Abraham Lincoln and statesman Fredrick Douglass. It wasn’t until 1976 that President Gerald Ford extended the observation to a full month honoring the contributions of black Americans to this day.



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-Historian Carter G. Woodson, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Washington, DC

In honor of Black History Month, take a look back at the early 1900s when white children in 15 Southern states attended brick-and-mortar schools, but African American children received their education in fields, churches or ramshackle buildings. A partnership between educator and reformer Booker T. Washington and Chicago Philanthropist Julius Rosenwald changed all that. https://www.carolinacountry.com/issues/2025/departments/feature-story/documenting-history

Mount Vernon Rosenwald School Preservation & Restoration in Progress. You can help! gofund.me/52201906

by Rudolph Elmore Young

"Our Gift To The World"

In 1974, I was tutoring a group of Africans in at the African Centre, in London. That Centre had moved to New York City. I myself was being tutored by Isola Akay, MBE, (Medal of the British Empire) awarded by Queen Elizabeth II, Robert Oblitey a Ga, who was an expert in African Hebrew Israelites, Loretta Algona Davis of Bull Bay, Jamaica, an expert in Maroon populations of the African Diaspora, Pauline Megasse a Ewe, from Togo secured my textbooks from the Portobello Road Flea Market. Most of them were the History of West Africa by F.K. Buah.

There's a lot of history in Lincoln County. The Rosenwald School in Iron Station is now getting the attention it deserves.

Digging for history: Graduate students conduct archeological dig at Mount Vernon Rosenwald School IRON STATION – Nearly 800 Rosenwald Schools were built in North Carolina – more than in any other state. Only two of the original six Rosenwald Schools are still standing