Stephanie Deutsch - You Need A Schoolhouse

Jan 21 2012 6:00 pm
Jan 21 2012 6:00 pm
In 1911 Booker T. Washington met Julius Rosenwald at a Chicago luncheon. The president of Sears, Roebuck, Rosenwald had a fortune and wanted to help educate poor children. Together, he and Washington built some 5,000 schoolhouses in rural African-American communities. Deutsch, a D.C.-based writer and critic, tells the story of this remarkable collaboration and profiles the lives of the two men both before and after their meeting.

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

By Stephanie Deutsch
$24.95
ISBN-13: 9780810127906
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Northwestern University Press, 12/2011
Location: 
Street:
5015 Connecticut Ave NW
City:
Washington
,
Province:
District Of Columbia
Postal Code:
20008
Country:
United States
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