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Samuel L. Smith
Samuel L. Smith was a school administrator and practical architect involved in school design for Rosenwald Schools. Biography He had was born in Humphreys County, Tennessee, and was educated in a one-room schoolhouse. He eventually graduated from Southwestern Presbyterian University in Clarksville, Tennessee, and earned a master's degree in rural school education from George Peabody College for Teachers. Smith also studied at the University of Chicago and at Harvard University, Harvard. Smith was a student of health education professor Fletcher B. Dresslar (1858–1930) who conducted an important initial survey for Rosenwald Schools. He was a rural school agent in Tennessee of the Rosenwald School program,, p.20 then General Field Agent. He created a series of school plans, for one-teacher, one-room and other sized schools, in various orientations suited for the weather and light of rural schools in the U.S. south. These designs were issued in a booklet entitled ''Community ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosenwald Schools
The Rosenwald School project built more than 5,000 schools, shops, and teacher homes in the Education in the United States, United States primarily for the education of African-American children in the Southern United States, South during the early 20th century. The project was the product of the partnership of Julius Rosenwald, a Jewish-American tailor, clothier who became part-owner and president of Sears Holdings Corporation, Sears, Roebuck and Company and the African-American leader, educator, and philanthropist Booker T. Washington, who was president of the Tuskegee University, Tuskegee Institute. The need arose from the chronic underfunding of public education for African-American children in the South, as black people had been discriminated against at the turn of the century and excluded from the political system in that region. Children were required to attend School segregation in the United States, segregated schools, and even those did not exist in many places. Rosenwa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
