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03965aam a22004698i 4500 001 F6499D30BAC211EB9414F93B44ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210522010007 008 200618s2021 gau b 000 0deng 010 $a 2020027870 020 $a 082035841X 020 $a 9780820358413 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d DLC $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a LC2771 $b .F45 2021 082 00 $a 371.82996073 $2 23 100 1 $a Feiler, Andrew $e author. $e author. 245 12 $a A better life for their children : $b Julius Rosenwald, Booker T. Washington, and the 4,978 schools that changed America / $c photographs and stories by Andrew Feiler ; with a foreword by Congressman John Lewis. 263 $a 2102 264 1 $a Athens : $b The University of Georgia Press, $c 2021. 300 $a xiii, 127 pages : $b illustrations, map ; $c 27 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 520 $a "Born to Jewish immigrants, Julius Rosenwald rose to lead Sears, Roebuck & Company and turn it into the world's largest retailer. Born into slavery, Booker T. Washington became the founding principal of Tuskegee Institute. In 1912 the two men launched an ambitious program to partner with black communities across the segregated South to build public schools for African American children. This watershed moment in the history of philanthropy-one of the earliest collaborations between Jews and African Americans-drove dramatic improvement in African American educational attainment and fostered the generation who became the leaders and foot soldiers of the civil rights movement. Of the original 4,978 Rosenwald schools built between 1917 and 1937 across fifteen southern and border states, only about 500 survive. While some have been repurposed and a handful remain active schools, many remain unrestored and at risk of collapse. To tell this story visually, Andrew Feiler drove more than twenty-five thousand miles, photographed 105 schools, and interviewed dozens of former students, teachers, preservationists, and community leaders in all fifteen of the program states. A Better Life for their Children includes eighty-five duotone images that capture interiors and exteriors, schools restored and yet-to-be restored, and portraits of people with unique, compelling connections to these schools. Brief narratives written by Feiler accompany each photograph, telling the stories of Rosenwald schools' connections to the Trail of Tears, the Great Migration, the Tuskegee Airmen, Brown v. Board of Education, embezzlement, murder, and more. Beyond the photographic documentation, A Better Life for Their Children includes essays from three prominent voices. Congressman John Lewis, who attended a Rosenwald school in Alabama, provides an introduction; preservationist Jeanne Cyriaque has penned a history of the Rosenwald program; and Brent Leggs, director of African American Cultural Heritage at the National Trust for Historic Preservation, has written a plea for preservation that serves as an afterword"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Rosenwald schools $x History. 650 0 $a Rosenwald schools $x History $v Pictorial works. 650 0 $a Public schools $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Public schools $z United States $x History $v Pictorial works. 650 0 $a African Americans $x History. $x History. 600 10 $a Rosenwald, Julius, $d 1862-1932. 600 10 $a Washington, Booker T., $d 1856-1915. 650 $a EDUCATION / History 650 $a HISTORY / African American 650 $a PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Historical 700 1 $a Lewis, John $d 1940-2020, $e author of foreword. 941 $a 5 952 $l USUX851 $d 20240717031102.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010023148.0 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20221025011526.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317031409.0 952 $l EZPE755 $d 20210522010109.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F6499D30BAC211EB9414F93B44ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search