RUSK COUNTY, Texas — Alumni of a segregated school in Rusk County are working together to restore the 100-year-old building that serves as a reminder of their history.

In Mount Enterprise, one of the few remaining Rosenwald schools in East Texas, Concord Rosenwald School , is still standing. The Rosenwald schools were created to give African American children in the South state-of-the-art schools, according to the National Trust for Historic Preservation. When segregation in education was declared unconstitutional, the Rosenwald schools became obsolete.

"We currently restoring the the old school, which consists of a 1925 building," said Alpheus Moss, president of Concord High School Alumni Association and 1966 graduate. "We're trying to maintain the history of this community, document

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