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In 1912, Julius Rosenwald (the son of Jewish immigrants) and Booker T. Washington (who was born into slavery) 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 is the subject of a current exhibit at the Bullock Museum, A Better Life for Their Children, which runs through Feb. 23.
The exhibit chronicles the 4,978 schools that not only drove dramatic improvement among African American students and fostered a burgeoning generation of Civil Rights leaders, but also changed America.
Purchase tickets here.
– Hannah Van Sickle, The Austin 100