It has a proud story to tell,” says a man who attended the Rosenwald School in Fort Worth’s Stop Six neighborhood.

If established, the Julius Rosenwald & Rosenwald Schools National Historical Park will be the first in the country to honor a Jewish American. After receiving approval from Congress based on a 2018 ...

More than 100 years ago, Rosenwald Schools popped up all over the South to educate Black students ...

The exhibition tells the story of the Rosenwald School program, an ambitious early 20th century initiative led by Jewish businessman Julius Rosenwald and Black educator Booker T. Washington.

The schools were the brainchild of two men, Booker T. Washington, the founder of Tuskegee University, and Julius Rosenwald, a philanthropist who was part owner and president of Sears and Roebuck.

By 1912, Julius Rosenwald had risen to become president of Sears and turned it into the world’s largest retailer. And he didn’t do it by telling one community or another they weren’t welcome.

The Julius Rosenwald and Rosenwald Schools National Historical Park Act of 2024 would allow the National Park Service to establish a national historical park protecting and interpreting Rosenwald and ...

Rosenwald schools were built throughout the southeast for Black students between 1912 and used through the 1960s. Julius Rosenwald, who was a partial owner/president of Sears, Roebuck & Company ...

RED HILL — A marker commemorating the historic Red Hill Rosenwald School was unveiled Tuesday morning outside of the Red Hill Community Center, in the Blue Springs community where Lee, Union and ...

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