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You Need a Schoolhouse
Stephanie Deutsch
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Description for You Need a Schoolhouse
Paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: B; JN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 318.
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 movement. Trim and vital at just shy of fifty, Rosenwald was the extraordinarily rich chairman of one of the nation’s largest businesses, interested in using his fortune ... Read more
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 movement. Trim and vital at just shy of fifty, Rosenwald was the extraordinarily rich chairman of one of the nation’s largest businesses, interested in using his fortune ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810131279
SKU
V9780810131279
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About Stephanie Deutsch
Stephanie Deutsch is a writer and critic living in Washington, DC, USA. She has written for The New York Times, The Weekly Standard, The Millions blog and various neighborhood newspapers.
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