Rosenwald High School (New Roads, Louisiana)

Rosenwald High School was a segregated Black high school located in New Roads, Louisiana. It served African American students in Pointe Coupee Parish during the Jim Crow era, providing secondary education opportunities that were often limited or unavailable elsewhere. The school was part of the Rosenwald School program, a collaborative effort between Julius Rosenwald, president of Sears, Roebuck and Company, and Booker T. Washington of the Tuskegee Institute. The Rosenwald Fund helped communities across the South build thousands of schools for African American children in the early 20th century. Rosenwald High School in New Roads played a significant role in educating generations of Black students and contributing to the community's social and intellectual life before desegregation. Details regarding its specific years of operation, curriculum, and alumni are limited in publicly available records but are often preserved within the local community.