Alumni and Educators
Alumni and Educators
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This page is dedicated to the principals, teachers, and alumni of Rosenwald schools in Monroe County, Mississippi. We will continue to add more stories as the Rosenwald Initiative further develops.
This page is dedicated to the principals, teachers, and alumni of Rosenwald schools in Monroe County, Mississippi. We will continue to add more stories as the Rosenwald Initiative further develops.
Estell Sims Halliburton
Estell Sims Halliburton
Estell attended Sandy Clay Rosenwald Elementary School. Her teacher, Mrs. Lucy Jenkins, encouraged her to write. She discusses her life in Leaving Aberdeen, published in 2021.
"Leaving Aberdeen is the story of a young Southern girl's awakening during a turbulent time of racial reckoning, from reading torn textbooks in a one-room schoolhouse to attending a premier HBCU, from professional modeling to motherhood, and from accepting her "place" to supporting her husband's membership as a Black Panther. Through it all, Estell's love-for and from her parents, siblings, relatives, husband, children, and friends-is a beacon of the hope that carried her through."
Shirley M. Porter Horton
Shirley M. Porter Horton
Shirley Marie Porter Horton was an alumni of Higgason Rosenwald in Egypt, Mississippi. After graduating in 1964, Shirley departed Mississippi making her way to New York, where she met and married the love of her life, Robert L. Horton with whom she shared two beautiful, precious, and amazing daughters, Sonya and Sharise. Shirley was employed at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York for 30 years working as histology laboratory technician. Over the span of her almost 40 years in New York, she developed her entrepreneurial spirit in glass history.
Henry Carter
Henry Carter
He was a member of the original thirty-three members of the Tuskegee Airmen. He flew 77 missions with the Tuskegee Airmen during World War II.
Milbert O. Brown, Jr
Milbert O. Brown, Jr
Milbert Brown has documented extensively about his family roots in Monroe County. While we have not established roots to Rosenwald schools, our research remains ongoing. His book, Family Treasures: Memoirs of the Blanchard Family, was published in 2003.
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