Goodman School

Julius Rosenwald meant his school money as seed money, to push states to take up their duty to Black schools. To qualify, a school had to meet minimums for site size and school term, with new blackboards, desks and two sanitary privies. By 1932 the fund had spent more than twenty-eight million dollars on 4,977 schools across fifteen states, and Mississippi's 637 Rosenwald-assisted buildings trailed only North Carolina's. In much of the South they were the only Black primary and secondary schools until the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• L.V. Hull Legacy Center — 20 mi
  A folk artist's legacy campus on Allen Street in Kosciusko, opened in June 2026 a few doors from the National Register home and studio of L.V. Hull, the Unusual Artist.
• Blue Front Cafe — 35 mi
  A cinder-block juke joint in Bentonia, opened in 1948 by Carey and Mary Holmes, home of the Bentonia school of blues and a stop on the Mississippi Blues Trail.

More markers nearby

• O.E.S. Birthplace — 4.4 mi
• Edmund Scarborough and John Scott — 6.3 mi
• Choctaw Line — 7.0 mi
• Elmore James — 8.3 mi