A fabulous follow-up to our most recent lecture featuring Janice Blumberg-Rothschild and photographer and author, Andrew Feiler! Join us for a guided tour of the Rosenwald School with Andrew Feiler. Between 1917 and 1932, nearly 5,000 rural schoolhouses, modest one-, two-, and three-teacher buildings known as Rosenwald Schools, came to exclusively serve more than 700,000 black children over four decades. It was through the shared ideals and a partnership between Booker T. Washington, an educator, intellectual and prominent African American thought leader, and Julius Rosenwald, a German-Jewish immigrant who accumulated his wealth as head of the behemoth retailer, Sears, Roebuck & Company, that Rosenwald Schools would come to comprise more than one in five Black schools operating throughout the South by 1928. Only about 500 of these structures survive today. The Noble Hill-Wheeler Memorial Center is a restored Rosenwald School that was built in 1923 as the first school for black children, which was built to standard specifications in Northwest Georgia. The school was closed in 1955 when black children in Bartow County were consolidated to form the Bartow Elementary School. After restoration in 1989, the building now serves as a black cultural museum that features historical aspects of black culture in Bartow County, with the primary focus being on lifestyles dating back to the late 1800s. We will tour the Noble Hill Rosenwald Memorial Center with a designated tour guide, as well as Andrew Feiler. Lunch will follow at The Temple.