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

by Stephanie Deutsch

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Booker T. Washington, the founder of Tuskegee Institute, and Julius Rosenwald, the president of Sears, Roebuck, and Company, first met in 1911 at a Chicago luncheon. By charting the lives of these two men both before and after the meeting, Stephanie Deutsch offers a fascinating glimpse into the partnership that would bring thousands of modern schoolhouses to African American communities in the rural South in the era leading up to the civil rights...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0810127903

ISBN13:9780810127906

Release Date:December 2011

Publisher:Northwestern University Press

Length:232 Pages

Weight:1.12 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.2" x 9.1"

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