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Rosenwald Schools once dotted the American south and educated over a third of rural Black students

Photo of Bhash MazumderBhash Mazumder, a Professor of Economics at the University of California, Irvine, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss Mazumder’s recent paper, which looks into the history of the Rosenwald Schools in the segregated South and their connection to political activism.

Schooling and Political Activism in the Early Civil Rights Era,” co-written with Daniel Aaronson, Mark Borgschulte, and Sunny Liu, is available now.

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