Rosenwald
Director: Aviva Kempner
The Rosenwald Schools by Aviva Kempner is a documentary about how Chicago philanthropist Julius Rosenwald, the son of an immigrant peddler who rose to head Sears, partnered with Booker T. Washington to build 5,400 Southern schools in African American communities in the early 1900s during the Jim Crow era.
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The New York Times
Daniel M. Gold
Daniel M. Gold
Village Voice
Daphne Howland
Daphne Howland
Slant Magazine
Wes Greene
Wes Greene
Irish Film Critic
Viktoria Kashtan
Viktoria Kashtan
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Kenneth Turan
The Mungle Show
Matt Mungle
Matt Mungle
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Cary Darling
Cary Darling
