Ciesla Foundation

Rosenwald

2015

$100,000

This grant provides funding to support the completion of the documentary that tells the story of Julius Rosenwald, the co-owner of Sears Roebuck who, through his philanthropy, helped build more than 5,000 schools for African American children in the 1920s and 30s.

Julius Rosenwald and Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee University, 1915. Courtesy of Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library