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Rosenwald
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"Rosenwald is the incredible story of how businessman and philanthropist Julius Rosenwald joined forces with Booker T. Washington and African American communities in the segregationist Jim Crow Sou...
"Rosenwald is the incredible story of how businessman and philanthropist Julius Rosenwald joined forces with Booker T. Washington and African American communities in the segregationist Jim Crow South to build more than 5000 schools. Inspired by the Jewish doctrine of 'tikkun olam' or repairing the world, and a deep concern over racial inequality in America, the Rosenwald Fund supported major African-American artists and intellectuals, like Marian Anderson, W.E.B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Jacob Lawrence, and Gordon Parks. This unprecedented historical partnership impacted American culture for generations and continues to inspire today."--Container.
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- Creator
- the Ciesla Foundation presents ; an Aviva Kempner film ; written, produced and directed by Aviva Kempner
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
- Contributors
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- Kempner, Aviva, director, producer ; screenwriter
- Hunter, Marian, editor of moving image work
- Mark, Zane, composer (expression)
- Ascoli, Peter Max, 1942- interviewee (expression)
- Deutsch, Stephanie, interviewee (expression)
- Hoffschwelle, Mary S., 1955- interviewee (expression)
- Bond, Julian, 1940-2015, interviewee (expression)
- Ciesla Foundation
- National Center for Jewish Film
- Publication
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- [Washington, DC] : The Ciesla Foundation, [2017]
- [Waltham, Massachusetts] : The National Center for Jewish Film
- ©2017
- Physical Details
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- 2 videodiscs (96 min.) : color, black and white, sound ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (10 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
- digital
- optical
- surround
- stereo
- Dolby Digital 5.1
- Dolby Digital 2.0
- videodisc NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- all regions
- ISBNs
- 9780692957394, 0692957391
- OCLC
- on1015201502
- Credits
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- With: Peter Ascoli, Stephanie Deutsch, Mary Hoffschwelle, Julian Bond, Eli Evans, Gordon Weil, Alice Rosenwald, Lauranita Dugas, Hasia Diner, Elizabeth Rosenwald Varet, Rita Dove, David Stern, Ossie Davis, David Driskell, E. Ethelbert Miller, Gilbert Rochon
- Editor, Marian Sears Hunter ; composer, Zane Mark
- Originally released as a motion picture in 2015.
- "The remarkable story of a Jewish partnership with African American communities"--Cover.
- Disc 1 special features include : film with director's commentary ; Julius Rosenwald's legacy : a pioneer of social justice (14 mins.) ; Need for better schools in the Jim Crow South : it was difficult for African Americans to get a first class education (8 mins.) ; Building Rosenwald schools : these new school buildings would make African Americans a visible part of public life (16 mins.) ; Restoring Rosenwald schools : this is a building worth saving (11 mins.) ; trailers.
- Disc 2 special features include : Growth of Sears and Roebuck under Rosenwald (12 mins.) ; Rosenwald and the NAACP (7 mins.) ; Banning Birth of a nation (5 mins.) ; Rosenwald serves in World War I (4 mins.) ; Chicago riots, 1919 (8 mins.) ; Rosenwald and the Chicago Crime Commission (3 mins.) ; The great migration (7 mins.) ; Lynching of Leo Frank (5 mins.) ; Building the 12th Street Y.M.C.A. (11 mins.) ; Michigan Boulevard Garden Apartments (15 mins.) ; Museum of Science and Industry (7 mins.) ; Rosenwald's contribution to Jewish charities (8 mins.) ; Rabbi Hirsch leads Chicago Sinai Congregation (13 mins.) ; Rosenwald's philosophy of philanthropy (8 mins.) ; Edwin Embree heads the Rosenwald Fund (11 mins.) ; Rosenwald Fund writers (10 mins.) ; Rosenwald Fund artists (16 mins.) ; Marian Anderson (8 mins.) ; Horace Mann Bond (6 mins.) ; Dr. Charles Drew (7 mins.) ; Langston Hughes (8 mins.) ; Jacob Lawrence (7 mins.) ; Gordon Parks (9 mins.) ; Augusta Savage (6 mins.) ; Madam C.J. Walker (6 mins.) ; Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois (7 mins.) ; Legacy of black architects at Tuskegee (10 mins.) ; Edith Stern (9 mins.) ; Rescue during World War II (6 mins.) ; Marx Brothers (1 min.) ; George Wolfe remembers (6 mins.) ; Debra and Joshua Levin's first date (3 mins.) ; Julian Bond on voting rights for DC (1 min.) ; Rosenwald on the rich (1 min.) ; Aviva Kempner's biography.
- Special features include : free downloadable teaching guide available online at rosenwaldfilm.org.
- DVD, NTSC; all regions.