The Tankersley Rosenwald School, also known as the Tankersley Elementary School, is a historic

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-style school building in

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, a suburb of Montgomery. This Rosenwald School building was built in 1922 to serve the local

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community. The money to build the school was provided, in part, by the Julius Rosenwald Fund. It was added to the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage on June 26, 2003, and to the

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as a part of

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on January 22, 2009.

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School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Alabama School buildings completed in 1922 Defunct schools in Alabama American Craftsman architecture in Alabama National Register of Historic Places in Montgomery County, Alabama Properties on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage Rosenwald schools in Alabama Historically segregated African-American schools in Alabama 1922 establishments in Alabama {{Alabama-NRHP-stub

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