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Historical marker unveiled at Rosa Scott School in Madison County

MADISON COUNTY, Miss. (WJTV) – Rosa Scott School in Madison County received a State Historical Marker on Wednesday, April 16.

Rosa Scott was born in 1874 and was a pioneer in education for African Americans. She served as principal at the middle school in Madison, which she helped raise funds to build. With matching funds provided by the Rosenwald Foundation, which was dedicated to the construction of state-of-the-art schools for African American children across the South, the school was completed in 1924.

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Scott was buried on the school’s grounds upon her death in 1938. In 1959, a new school was built for Madison County’s African American students and named for Rosa Scott. Following integration, Rosa Scott School became a middle school and in 2004 was redesignated for all ninth-grade students in the Jaguar Attendance Zone of Madison County Schools.

In 2021, the family of Rosa Scott travelled from across the country to gather at the school and present a biography of Mrs. Scott to the library, preserving her contributions to the school.

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