JazzInTheValley.org
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With the help of Booker T. Washington, in 1925, A grant was provided by Julius Rosenwald, a former Sears and Roebucks CEO, to aid in the building of a normal school in Franklin County, and many other African American and Indian schools throughout the south and southwest. Not long after construction was completed on the Townsend school, it was destroyed by fire. Within two years however, it was rebuilt on the same property and named in honor of "Doc" Townsend, a former slave.
