Mar 30 2016
ROSENWALD Film

ROSENWALD Film

Presented by The Indianapolis Urban League at Unknown

Rosenwald is  a documentary that tells the little known story about how Chicago philanthropist Julius Rosenwald, the son of a Jewish immigrant peddler, changed the lives of countless African Americans.  Rosenwald helped build 5,400 Southern schools in African American communities in the early 1900s during the Jim Crow era. He also built YMCAs and housing for African Americans to address the pressing needs of the Great Migration. The Rosenwald Fund supported great artists like Marian Anderson, Langston Hughes, Gordon Parks, and Jacob Lawrence. Among those interviewed are civil rights leaders Julian Bond, Ben Jealous and Congressman John Lewis, columnists Eugene Robinson and Clarence Page, Cokie Roberts, Rabbi David Saperstein, Rosenwald school alumni, writer Maya Angelou as well as film/theater director George C. Wolfe.

 

Admission Info

The cost is $10/person 

Dates & Times

2016/03/30 - 2016/03/30

Location Info