An edition of You need a schoolhouse (2011)
You need a schoolhouse
Booker T. Washington, Julius Rosenwald, and the building of schools for the segregated South
By Stephanie Deutsch
Publish Date
2011
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Language
eng
Pages
218
Description:
Discusses the friendship between Booker T. Wahington, founder of the Tuskegee Institute, and Julius Rosenwald, president of Sears, Roebuck and Company and how, through their friendship, they were able to build five thousand schools for African Americans in the Southern states.
subjects: Buildings, Friends and associates, Julius Rosenwald Fund, Political and social views, School buildings, Education, African Americans, History, Social conditions, Economic conditions, Segregation, Race relations
People: Julius Rosenwald (1862-1932), Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)
Places: Southern States
Times: 20th century