; and (ii) financially contributed to a pilot program to build 6 schools in rural Alabama for African-American children who were receiving little to no education; and (B) the donations by Rosenwald described in subparagraph (A) were matched by the local African-American communities that were committed to providing education for their children; (6) (A) the success of the pilot program referred to in paragraph (5)(A)(ii) led to the construction of more than 5,300 Rosenwald Schools and related buildings over a 20-year period in 15 southern States under the direction of the Julius Rosenwald Fund; (B) the schools described in subparagraph (A)— (i) were the result of a 3-way partnership among the Julius Rosenwald Fund, local communities that, although generally poor, contributed land, labor, materials, and money to build and maintain the schools, and local governments that were required by law to provide public schools for all children but divided funds unequally between Black and White systems; and (ii) often became the focus of great pride and affection among the applicable communities; (C) during the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, 1/3 of all African-American children in the South were educated in Rosenwald Schools; (D) a 2011 study by 2 Federal Reserve economists concluded that the schools played a significant role in narrowing the gap between the educational levels of Black and White students in the South; and (E) Members of Congress and poet Maya Angelou are among prominent graduates of Rosenwald Schools; (7) the Julius Rosenwald Fund— (A) supported early National Association for the Advancement of Colored People cases that eventually led to the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), which outlawed segregation in public education