The Shiloh Elementary school served Asheville's African-American community from the 1920's until it graduated its last class in 1969. Shiloh was one of the more than 45-hundred Rosenwald Schools, which were built in the early 20th century to serve African-American students in rural parts of the Southern U.S. There were also Rosenwald Schools in Brevard and Mars Hill. They were created through a partnership of Julius Rosenwald, a white Jewish businessman and philanthropist, and Booker T.