Professor C. L. Timberlake established the first high school in the city for blacks here. Rosenwald High School opened in 1932 and operated until 1966, with its construction funded by the Rosenwald Foundation. In 1936, its basketball team won the National Negro tournament. Its educators included Whitney Young, Jr., Pearl Arnett, and Caldwell Smith, Sr. Timberlake, who lived from 1885 to 1979, worked his lifetime to improve black educational opportunities. In 1914, he wrote the first position paper published by a black Kentucky educator. He won a citation from the National Urban League for outstanding achievement in education in 1949 and served as the first black educator on the Kentucky Textbook Commission in 1950. He lived here after he retired.