You Need a Schoolhouse: Booker T. Washington, Julius Rosenwald, and the Building of Schools for the Segregated South

You Need a Schoolhouse: Booker T. Washington, Julius Rosenwald, and the Building of Schools for the Segregated South
ISBN-10
0810127903
ISBN-13
9780810127906
Category
Education
Pages
218
Language
English
Published
2011-12-30
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Author
Stephanie Deutsch

Description

Discusses the friendship between Booker T. Wahington, founder of the Tuskegee Institute, and Julius Rosenwald, president of Sears, Roebuck and Company and how, through their friendship, they were able to build five thousand schools for African Americans in the Southern states.

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