In Notasulga, the Shiloh-Rosenwald School grew from a collaboration between Booker T. Washington and Julius Rosenwald, chief executive officer of Sears, and stands in the oldest Rosenwald community, where one of the first six schools was built. Rosenwald schools became important landmarks in African-American education and were regarded as schools of hope, though many later disappeared through neglect and abandonment. This two-teacher school, designed by Tuskegee Institute architects, used bricks made by hand by Tuskegee students and its three rooms served grades 1 through 6. Its construction was supported substantially by the African American community rather than by a simple handout from the Rosenwald Fund. Notasulga was organized in 1893 and is identified here as the birthplace of Zora Neale Hurston, born January 7, 1891, an American folklorist who gained prominence during the Harlem Renaissance. Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church was organized in 1870 and became the first recruitment site for the Tuskegee syphilis study, which sought to determine the effects of untreated syphilis on the Negro male; more men were recruited there than at any other site. Civil rights attorney Fred Gray later demanded an apology from the government on behalf of participants and descendants from Shiloh. The study lasted 40 years. The church remains well preserved, with an original operable bell in its steeple from an earlier wooden structure built in the late 1870s. Shiloh Cemetery contains the remains of the largest number of men from the Tuskegee syphilis study, with graves dating back as far as 1874, most marked by simple headstones.