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.
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Rosenwald Schools educated generations of Black Americans; now, fighting to preserve legacy.
Maudy Adkinson Johnson remembers walking across cow fields and busy roads as a child to get to her one-room schoolhouse in Spring Hill, Tennessee.

