Julius Rosenwald and Rosenwald Schools National Historical Park Act
Committee hearing: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- Committee hearing
- Started in
- Senate
- Sponsors
- 9
- Latest action
- Jul 21, 2026
What it does
The bill would establish the Julius Rosenwald and Rosenwald Schools National Historical Park as a unit of the National Park System to honor Julius Rosenwald’s legacy as a philanthropist and his partnership with Booker T. Washington and African American communities to build over 5,000 schools in the segregated South between 1912 and 1932, which educated more than 600,000 African American children. The park would include specific restored Rosenwald Schools in Maryland, South Carolina, and Virginia, along with a headquarters and visitor center at or near the former Sears Merchandising Complex in Chicago, Illinois. It would also create a Rosenwald Schools National Network to connect and…
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