The First Black Charter Schools?

With all the talk about charter schools, the Rosenwald School may have been the first
charter schools provided for black children. And it was a rich, Jewish capitalist who provided these schools when the goverment did not!

A Rosenwald School was the name informally applied to over five thousand schools, shops, and teachers' homes in the United States which were built primarily for the education of African Americans in the early twentieth century. The name originated with Julius Rosenwald, an American clothier who became part-owner and president of Sears, Roebuck and Company, and founder of The Rosenwald Fund, through which many of the schools and other philanthropic causes were funded. A requirement of grants for local matching funds resulted in community efforts which raised millions of dollars.