Rosenwald

Name: Rosenwald
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2015-04-19T00:00:00.000Z
Duration: 100 min
Rating: 4

The Rosenwald Schools by Aviva Kempner is a documentary about 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.