HIST 04SU25 OL - 5,000 Schoolhouse - How Rosenwald and Washington Changed America (ONLINE)

Course Description

HIST 04SU25 OL – 5,000 Schoolhouse – How Rosenwald and Washington Changed American (ONLINE)

In the late 1800’s and early 1900’s, opportunities for basic education were largely denied to African Americans. In fact, during the long era of slavery, education was explicitly denied to slaves under penalty of punishment or death. In 1881, Booker T. Washington, himself a former slave, founded the Tuskegee Institute for the training of African American men and women to become teachers, craftsmen, farmers, engineers and scientists. In 1911, Washington met Julius Rosenwald, the CEO of Sears, and the two men developed a plan to build thousands of schoolhouses for Black children across the segregated South. The project would ultimately be life changing for thousands of individuals and communities and help bring about the wider civil rights movement.

Mon.                            6/16                                10-11:30 am                              ONLINE (Link will be emailed to you)

Instructor: Don Wolman