![]() ![]() I, a former student (as was my father and my brother) of a Rosenwald School: “The Dry Bridge School/East Martinsville Grammar School” located in Martinsville/Henry County, VA. This program is in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr Day. Aviva Kempner is a filmmaker who created the documentary Rosenwald about the incredible story of how businessman and philanthropist Julius Rosenwald joined with African American communities in the South to build schools during the early part of the 20th century.Washington, and the 4,978 Schools that Changed America. Andrew Feiler is author of the photodocumentary A Better Life for Their Children: Julius Rosenwald, Booker T.Washington, Julius Rosenwald and the Building of Schools for the Segregated South. Stephanie Deutsch, whose husband is a great grandson of Julius Rosenwald, is the author of You Need a Schoolhouse: Booker T. ![]() The restored school is now a Black heritage museum, first curated by Marian and now by her niece Valerie Coleman. Marian Wheeler Coleman was once a student at a Rosenwald school-the Noble Hill School that her great grandfather helped build.Dorothy Canter is the founder of the Julius Rosenwald and Rosenwald Schools National Historic Park Campaign.They discuss Rosenwald and Washington’s historic partnership, the impact the Rosenwald schools had on the African American community and the importance of remembering and preserving their legacy. Learn from our distinguished guests who have dedicated their time to documenting, preserving, and sharing the historical and educational legacy of Washington and Rosenwald, “one of the earliest collaborations between Jews and African Americans,” according to photographer Andrew Feiler. Washington, Jewish businessman and philanthropist Julius Rosenwald established challenge grants that lead to the creation between 19 of almost 5,000 schools, known as Rosenwald Schools, for African American children throughout the segregated south. Working with African American intellectual Booker T.
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