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Rosenwald School

Delight, Pike County

Photograph of Rosenwald School
Photo: Valis55, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons License. Source

The first school here, between Delight and Antoine, was built in 1923 with help from the Julius Rosenwald Fund for Pike County's Black children. In 1938 the WPA put up this new one-story frame building. Arkansas had 389 Rosenwald-funded school buildings in 35 counties.

Kind of place
Schools, gyms and job training
Built by
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
When
About 1938
Where
Delight, Pike County
Still there?
Not confirmed lately

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Sources

Part of Rediscovering Arkansas’s New Deal, a public map of 1930s New Deal work across all 75 counties. Updated 2026-10-14.