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Julius Rosenwald. Julius Rosenwald (August 12, 1862 – January 6, 1932) was an American businessman and philanthropist. He is best known as a part-owner and leader of Sears, Roebuck and Company, and for establishing the Rosenwald Fund, which donated millions in matching funds to promote vocational or technical education.
English. Box office. $433,924 [1] Rosenwald: A Remarkable Story of a Jewish Partnership with African American Communities is a 2015 documentary film written and directed by Aviva Kempner about the career of American businessman and philanthropist Julius Rosenwald. It debuted on February 25, 2015 at the Washington Jewish Film Festival .
The event that triggered the formation of the Secret Six was the shooting of a building contractor's superintendent, Philip Meagher, on February 5, 1930 at the construction site of the Lying-In Hospital (later part of the University of Chicago Hospitals) at 59th and Maryland Avenue. The superintendent's employer, Harrison Barnard, went to the ...
Julius Rosenwald gave us that key,” James said. The 76-year-old retired municipal judge has made it his life's goal to restore his old school. In the past decade, James has secured more than $2 ...
What are commonly referred to as Rosenwald Schools were the result of an initial partnership between Sears, Roebuck, and Co. President Julius Rosenwald, Tuskegee Institute President Booker T ...
Rosenwald, his nonprofit, The Rosenwald Fund, and members of the Black community raised funding for the construction of more than 5,000 schools, teacher homes and shops between 1912 and 1932 ...
List of Rosenwald schools. Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. This is a list of some of the 5,000 Rosenwald Schools built across the South from Texas to Virginia and from Florida to Oklahoma. There once were 5,000 or so Rosenwald Schools in the United States, primarily serving Black Americans. At least 58 of these schools are listed on ...
In 1912, Rosenwald donated $25,000 to the Tuskegee Institute, and Washington convinced him to use a portion of that amount ($2,800) to build six small rural schools in Alabama, with half of the ...