Historic school facilities for black students are being preserved as landmarks

From The New York Times: The Pine Grove school in Columbia, S.C., one of many schools built in the South in the 1920s for African-American students with resources from philanthropist Julius Rosenwald, is one of several dozen such schools being restored as landmarks — newly appreciated relics of important chapters in philanthropy and black education. Historians say the schools were a turning point that sparked improved, if still unequal, education for much of the South.