Free Historical Documentary Screening: Rosenwald
Venue: Meadowbrook Public Library, Shawsville
Date: Saturday, June 15, 2019
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Event Types: Arts & Theatre, Speaking Engagements
Cost: Free
Description:
The Meadowbrook Public Library presents a Free Historical Documentary Screening of the film "Rosenwald: The Remarkable Story of a Jewish Partnership with African American Communities" on Saturday, June 15, 2019.

Join us to watch the film "Rosenwald" to learn about the American businessman and philanthropist and his work with Booker T. Washington to design and build simple schoolhouses in the rural south including four here in Montgomery County, Virginia. A discussion of the film will follow.

"Rosenwald" is a 2015 documentary written and directed by Aviva Kempner.

"Rosenwald" is a documentary about how Chicago philanthropist Julius Rosenwald, the son of an immigrant peddler who rose to head Sears, partnered with Booker T. Washington to build 5,400 Southern schools in African American communities in the early 1900s during the Jim Crow era.

Rosenwald 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, Woody Guthrie, 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 and director George C. Wolfe and Rosenwald relatives.

For more information on the film, visit: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2514028.

Admission is free and all are welcome.

To view the event flyer, visit: https://i.imgur.com/54bTj8w.jpg.

For more information, visit: http://www.montgomery-floyd.lib.va.us/ or https://www.facebook.com/pages/Meadowbrook-Public-Library/207765498326 or call 540-268-1964.