Louisiana Museum has Rosenwald School Building, Early Sugar Cane Planter Made by Black Men

By Sydney Simone

WVLA-TV 33

The River Road African American Museum in Donaldsonville holds important pieces of Louisiana history. The organization maintains a former Rosenwald school and one of the first sugarcane planting machines created by two Black men.

In the early 1900s, education wasn’t easily accessible for everyone. By the middle of the century, two prominent Black men had created dozens of schools in the South, one of which is now in Donaldsonville.

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