Rosenwald
MovieTitle | Rosenwald |
User score | 0 |
Release date | Apr 19, 2015 |
Genre | Documentary |
Director | Aviva Kempner |
Production country | United States of America |
Production companies | Ciesla Foundation |
Run time | 100 min. |
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.