ABOUT THE FILM
Aviva Kempner’s film “Rosenwald” is the incredible story of Jewish businessman Julius Rosenwald who joined forces with African American communities during Jim Crow to build more than 5,300 schools across the segregated American South, providing 660,000 black children with access to education. Influenced by the writings of the educator Booker T. Washington and a deep concern over racial inequality in America, Julius Rosenwald become one of America’s most effective philanthropists. Recipients of the Rosenwald Fund for African American Artists included Gordon Parks Jr., Augusta Savage, Dr. Charles Drew, Katherine Dunham, Ralph Ellison, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Langston Hughes. This terrific documentary includes interviews with Congressman John Lewis, Julian Bond, Maya Angelou, Rabbi David Saperstein, Benjamin Jealous, A’lelia Bundles, Eugene Robinson, George Wolfe, David Levering Lewis, Ossie Davis, and many others. Filmmaker Aviva Kempner is the award-winning director of The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg and Yoo-Hoo Mrs. Goldberg. For more information about the film and Ms. Kempner, visit: http://rosenwaldfilm.org
OTHER ROSENWALD LINKS
Rosenwald Restoration Projects
