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Mar 30, 2021 · His memoir, Up From Slavery, inspired many, including Julius Rosenwald, who was impressed with Washington’s zeal for education as it aligned so closely with his own beliefs. In the Jim Crow...
Julius Rosenwald was an unlikely fairy godfather. But Rosenwald, child of German-Jewish immigrants and a high-school dropout, was just that for more than half a million poor, mostly rural, Southern black children in the 1920s, including more than 50,000 in Texas.
Mar 11, 2012 · Sears, Roebuck President Julius Rosenwald and civil rights leader Booker T. Washington got together to help build of thousands of schoolhouses for black children in the segregated South.
Julius Rosenwald, a philanthropist and president of Sears, Roebuck and Company, launched the project in partnership with Black American orator and president of the Tuskegee Institute, Booker T...
Sep 16, 2015 · Before there was Samuel Mockbee and Rural Studio, there was Julius Rosenwald. In the early 1900s, Rosenwald oversaw a self-help construction program for schoolhouses in the rural South. By 1928, one out of every five schools in the region was what became popularly known as a Rosenwald School.
The schools educated one-third of African-American children of the South in the years before the end of legal segregation and gave them a chance for a better life. Following implementation of the Brown v. Board of Education ruling many fell into disrepair or passed into private hands.
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Julius Rosenwald, Sears Company Head and Jewish Philanthropist. They were called “Rosenwald schools,” because the money to start them came from Julius Rosenwald (1862-1932). He was a second-generation American. His parents emigrated from Germany in 1854 to escape anti-Jewish discrimination.
