South Carolina H 5225: Rosenwald School Day in SC

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2025-2026 Bill 5225 Text of Previous Version (Feb. 24, 2026) - South Carolina Legislature Online 

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026

Bill 5225

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A house RESOLUTION

TO DECLARE FEBRUARY 28, 2026, AS "ROSENWALD SCHOOL 
DAY" IN SOUTH CAROLINA.

Whereas, a challenge 
grant fund established by Julius Rosenwald and Booker T. Washington ran from 
1912 to 1923 to build schools for African American students across the 
Southeast, with the resulting schools known as Rosenwald Schools; and

Whereas, four hundred 
eighty-six Rosenwald Schools were built in South Carolina, at least one in 
every county, and over one third of African American students in the South 
attended a Rosenwald School in the first half of the twentieth century; and

Whereas, African 
American communities in South Carolina matched Rosenwald Fund donations with 
money raised by the community and with land they owned to ensure education for 
their children; and

Whereas, Rosenwald 
Schools also served as community meeting spaces and were an important gathering 
space for the Civil Rights Movement in South Carolina; and

Whereas, despite the 
integral role Rosenwald Schools played in African American education and the 
Civil Rights Movement, most buildings have fallen into disrepair or have been 
demolished, their land and stories lost with them; and

Whereas, the remaining 
Rosenwald School buildings and school sites are invaluable cultural resources 
that should be protected, restored, and interpreted. Now, therefore,

Be it resolved by the House of Representatives:

That the members of the 
South Carolina House of Representatives, 
by this resolution, declare February 28, 2026, as "Rosenwald School Day" in 
South Carolina. 

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