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6 days ago · Julius Rosenwald was one of the most significant figures in Southern black education. Although Rosenwald was a successful businessman, his philanthropic work has always overshadowed his financial success.
4 days ago · In the audience were two representatives from Julius Rosenwald 's philanthropic organization, the Rosenwald Fund. The organization's representatives, Ray Field and George Arthur, encouraged Anderson to apply for a Rosenwald Fellowship, from which she received $1500 to study in Berlin.
3 days ago · He collaborated with the philanthropist Julius Rosenwald in the early 20th century to create a model for rural black schools; Rosenwald established a fund that matched monies raised by communities to build more than 5,000 schools for rural black children, mostly in the South.
Jun 22, 2024 · The product of a partnership between Booker T. Washington and Sears, Roebuck and Company President Julius Rosenwald, those schools educated thousands of Black children in the South during the years of Jim Crow.
Jun 25, 2024 · The Rosenwald School Program began in 1912 when Booker T. Washington approached Julius Rosenwald for seed funding to support rural African American communities’ efforts to build schoolhouses in Alabama.
The project was the product of the partnership of Julius Rosenwald, a Jewish-American clothier who became part-owner and president of Sears, Roebuck and Company and the African-American leader, educator, and philanthropist Booker T. Washington, who was president of the Tuskegee Institute.
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Jul 3, 2024 · The brainchild of Booker T. Washington of the Tuskegee Institute, and funded by philanthropist and Sears Roebuck & Co. president Julius Rosenwald, this innovative funding program ran from 1913-1932, and provided matching funds and building plans to African-American communities in the South that wanted schools.
