Posted on 07/20/2015 8:52:48 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
New film, ‘Rosenwald,’ tells story of philanthropist Julius Rosenwald who transformed black lives, including those of writer Langston Hughes and opera singer Marion Anderson.
PHILADELPHIA (JTA) — Alex Bethea, the son of cotton and tobacco farm workers, was in sixth grade in 1965 when his family moved from Dillon, South Carolina, to the tiny town of Fairmont, North Carolina, where he attended a school called Rosenwald.
But it wasn’t until this week, 50 years later, that Bethea learned that his school was named for Julius Rosenwald, the Jewish philanthropist who is the subject of a new documentary by Aviva Kempner. The film tells the little-known story of Rosenwald’s contribution to African-American culture and education.
The revelation came at a July 14 session at the national convention of the NAACP, which drew several thousand delegates to Philadelphia. Bethea was one of some 70 people who attended a screening of the film, “Rosenwald.”
“Julius Rosenwald had a great impact on my life, and I didn’t even know it,” said Bethea, now a vice principal at an elementary school in New Jersey. “This helps me put the pieces of the puzzle of my life together.”(continued)
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BTTT
Heavy-handed confiscatory policies don't have nearly as good a track record.
Rosenveld built 5300 schools to help black kids
and
the Arabs have built about that number of mosques in Europe and USA .. many or most of which are preaching the very worst most anti-Christian, anti-American murderous krap to their membership
its truly like day and night
Israel/ good Jews try to be as a light to the nations
Islam as a terrorist murdering cult attacking all the nations
like day and night
As read in the article: “... In addition, he developed a huge apartment complex in Chicago to help improve the living conditions for the masses who had migrated from the Jim Crow South.”
And.......what do we call huge apartment complexes that improve the living conditions for the masses today? Welfare complexes.
Everything starts somewhere.
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