With Booker T. Washington’s help, Julius Rosenwald built 5,000 schools for Black students across 15 Southern states. Why do so few people know his name? Mostly, what Newell Quinton knew about his ...

"Early in the school building program, Booker T. Washington sent Julius Rosenwald photographs like this of schoolchildren and teachers standing proudly in front of their schools. Rosenwald was ...

She told him about the collaboration between Julius Rosenwald, a northern Jewish American philanthropist and head of Sears, ...

The Rosenwald Park Campaign, NPCA, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation are calling on our leaders in Washington to designate a national park site in honor of Julius Rosenwald, his ...

A ceremonial groundbreaking at 10 a.m. April 21, will symbolize the start of a total restoration of the Okahumpka Rosenwald School.

Stephanie Deutsch is a writer and the author of You Need a Schoolhouse: Booker T. Washington, Julius Rosenwald, and the Building of Schools for the Segregated South. Stories of the extraordinary ...