Mathews High Scool Auditorium

Rosenwald film screening and discussion with Antioch School alumni and the National Historic Preservation Trust. In the early 1900's, Owner and CEO of Sears & Roebuck, Co. Julius Rosenwald used his considerable wealth to build more than 5,000 schools for the benefit of African-Americans in the South. After the schools were desegregated, most of these "Rosenwald" schools were lost and today only 10% of the original structures are still standing. Mathews County is lucky to have one of the few…