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Julius Rosenwald
Author: Peter M. Ascoli Edition: 1St Edition Publisher: Indiana University Press Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 0253347416 Price: You Save: 39%
Julius Rosenwald: The Man Who Built Sears, Roebuck and Advanced the Cause of Black Education in the American South (Philanthropic and Nonprofit Studies)
"This is the first serious biography of the exuberant man who transformed the Sears, Roebuck company into the country’s most important retailer.Julius Rosenwald review. He was also one of the early 20th century’s notable philanthropists...Read full reviews of Julius Rosenwald: The Man Who Built Sears, Roebuck And Advanced the Cause of Black Education in the American South (Philanthropic and Nonprofit Studies).
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Julius Rosenwald: The Man Who Built Sears, Roebuck And Advanced the Cause of Black Education in the American South (Philanthropic and Nonprofit Studies) - Peter Max Ascoli
Review "It is no wonder... that when Rosenwald died in 1932, WEB DuBois declared, 'He was a great man. But he was no mere philanthropist. He was, rather, the subtle stinging critic of our racial democracy.'... Set against the virtual absence of black education in the rural South beforehand, his [Rosenwald's] schools qualified as revolutionary.... Rosenwald established a standard of enlightenment, impact and common sense." òÀÔMoment (Moment 2008) "In Julius Rosenwald... his grandson Peter Max Ascoli has done well in searching out the scattered sources that previous biographers have neglected
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 nations largest businesses, interested i
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One of the most influential philanthropists of the early 20th century, Edwin Rogers Embree was the scion of generations of abolitionists and integrationists. He ably served the Rockefeller Foundation and when Julius Rosenwald created a foundation for his philanthropic activity, he called on Embree to be its head. The Rosenwald Fund is best known for constructing more than 5300 schools for rural black communities in the South. In the 1940s, Embree became more personally engaged with race relations in the US He chaired Chicago's Commission on Race Relations, helped create Roosevelt College, and
He was also one of the early 20th century’s notable philanthropists.... The richness of primary evidence continually delights." —Judith Sealander, author of Private Wealth and Public Life
"[No] mere philanthropist [but a] subtle, stinging critic of our racial democracy." —W. E. B. DuBois on Julius Rosenwald
In this richly revealing biography of a major, but little-known, American businessman and philanthropist, Peter Ascoli brings to life a portrait of Julius Rosenwald, the man and his work. The son of first-generation German Jewish immigrants, Julius Rosenwald, known to his friends as "JR," apprenticed for his uncles, who were major clothing manufacturers in New York City. It would be as a men’s clothing salesperson that JR would make his fateful encounter with Sears, Roebuck and Company, which he eventually fashioned into the greatest mail order firm in the world. He also founded Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry. And in the American South Rosenwald helped support the building of the more than 5,300 schools that bore his name. Yet the charitable fund he created during World War I went out of existence in 1948 at his expressed wish. Ascoli provides a fascinating account of Rosenwald’s meteoric rise in American business, but he also portrays a man devoted to family and with a desire to help his community that led to a lifelong devotion to philanthropy. He tells about Rosenwald’s important philanthropic activities, especially those connected with the Rosenwald schools and Booker T. Washington, and later through the Rosenwald Fund.
Ascoli’s account of Rosenwald is an inspiring story of hard work and success, and of giving back to the nation in which he prospered.
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