A classroom in the old Mount Sinai Junior High School, a "Rosenwald School," that was built for rural Black Americans during the Jim Crow era near Prattville, Alabama.
Mandatory Credit:	Jay Reeves/AP

A classroom in the old Mount Sinai Junior High School, a "Rosenwald School," that was built for rural Black Americans during the Jim Crow era near Prattville, Alabama.
Mandatory Credit: Jay Reeves/AP

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