In 1912, Tuskegee Institute President Dr. Booker T. Washington invited Jewish-American philanthropist Julius Rosenwald to serve on the Tuskegee board of directors to help African American education, as rural segregated southern schools suffered from inadequate facilities and books. Rosenwald’s 1917 school building fund encouraged and helped organize local collaboration between Blacks and Whites, requiring communities to raise matching funds while local Black communities raised money and donated land and or labor. Between 1917 and 1932, Rosenwald funded 5,357 community schools, teachers’ homes, and industrial shops in the 15 states of the former South, many of them 1-4 room Tuskegee Institute designs taught by Black teachers under the local Board of Education. By the 1930s, 1/3 of all Black children attended a Rosenwald School. Creek County had approximately 15 Rosenwald schools, including Oakland School, Burgess School, Sunset School, Morning Star School, Crowson School, Browns School, Wheatley Separate School, Rock Creek School, Jackson School, Dunbar School, Pretty Water School, Harlingsville School, and Blue Bell Separate School. These schools were eventually dissolved, and the land was sold once a larger school developed that could serve a greater area and accommodate more students. In 1932, additional funds from the Rosenwald Fund and the Bristow Board of Education were used to construct the Lincoln School in Bristow, Oklahoma, which provided grade through high school education for African American students. Lincoln School ultimately closed with integration, and many students transitioned to Bristow High School; Lincoln High School remains the only Rosenwald School still standing in Creek County.