Film Screening and Discussion: Rosenwald

Monday, February 29, 2016 6:00 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterThis documentary recounts  how Chicago philanthropist Julius Rosenwald, the son of an immigrant peddler who rose to head Sears, partnered with Booker T. Washington to build 5,400 Southern schools in African American communities in the early 1900s during the Jim Crow era.  Rosenwald also built YMCAs and housing for African Americans to address the pressing needs of the Great Migration.
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