Under the Kudzu

Anderson, James D. The Education of Blacks in the South, 186-1935 (1988) University of North Carolina Press

Ascoli, Peter M. Julius Rosenwald (2006) Indiana University Press

Brown, Hugh Victor E-Qual-ity Education in North Carolina Among Negroes (1964) Irving-Swain Press

 Fairclough, Adam Teaching Equality: Black Schools in the Age of Jim Crow (2001) University of Georgia Press

Fairclough, Adam "The Costs of Brown: Black Teachers and School Integration" The Journal of American History  June 2004

Hanchett, Thomas W.  "The Rosenwald Schools and Black Education in North Carolina" North Carolina Historical Review October 1988

 Hoffschwelle, Mary The Rosenwald Schools of the American South (2006) University Press of Florida

 Siddle Walker, Vanessa Their Highest Potential An African American School Community in the Segregated South (1996) University of North Carolina Press

 Washington, Booker T. The Story of My Life and Work (1901) J.L. Nichols & Co.

West, Earle H. The Black American and Education (1972) Charles E. Merrill Publishing Company

Photo by Claudia Stack

One-room Rosenwald school in Willard, NC.  This building was originally located in Watha, but was moved to serve as the cafeteria for the Willard consolidation school.  Now owned by the Willard Outreach Organization.