Exhibit and Tour: A Better Life for Their Children
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Join former Rosenwald school student, Marvin Tupper Jones, on Saturday, May 2 at 2pm at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC for a tour of A Better Life for Their Children. The tour will be conducted by Dorothy Canter, the President of the Rosenwald Park Campaign, which is supported by the family of Julius Rosenwald.
The entrance fee is $10 general admission and $7 for 60 years and older.
A Better Life for Their Children: Julius Rosenwald, Booker T. Washington, and the 4,978 Schools that Changed America tells the largely unknown story of the early twentieth-century partnership between Julius Rosenwald, a Jewish businessman and philanthropist, and Booker T. Washington, a Black educator, author, and reformer, which led to the construction of thousands of schoolhouses across fifteen states in the segregated South. The Rosenwald Schools provided classrooms and were places where learning, community, and civic pride flourished, designed to expand opportunity and address systemic inequities for Black children.
Learn more about the exhibit on the NBM website.
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