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Young Ovella rejoices as her community comes together to raise money and build a much-needed school in the 1920s, with matching funds from the president of Sears, Roebuck, and Company and support from Professor James of the Normal School.
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Julius Rosenwald, president of Sears, Roebuck and Co., heard about the role education played in the life of Booker T. Washington, and he decided to donate money to build schools for black children all across the South. This story depicts the building of one of these schools told from the point of view of one of the children.