Photographer Andrew Feiler remembers the moment he first heard about Rosenwald schools. After publishing his first book, “Without Regard to Sex, Race, or ...

Rosenwald and Washington met in 1911. At that time, Black public schools in the South were usually in informal ... Center & Museum in Greensboro, North Carolina. "Andrew Feiler is a photographer ...

South Carolina, to the tiny town of Fairmont, North Carolina, where he attended a school called Rosenwald. But it wasn’t until this week, 50 years later, that Bethea learned that his school was ...

School segregation became systemic in the South, a part of life seldom questioned ... in the full-text version hosted by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Rosenwald read Washington’s ...

A new book commemorates the landmark educational initiative for rural Black children and brings renewed awareness of the Jewish philanthropist instrumental in the project. ATLANTA (JTA) — To the ...

The need arose from the chronic underfunding of public education for African-American children in the South, who were required to attend segregated schools. Julius Rosenwald, an American clothier ...

See more › Rosenwald partnered with African American communities across the South to help fund the construction of more than 5,300 schools and related buildings for children who otherwise would have ...