‘A Better Life For Their Children’ Looks At The History Of The Rosenwald Schools

The Rosenwald Schools program is considered the most important initiative for Black education in our nation’s history. Nearly 5,000 public schools were built between 1912 and 1937 throughout the segregated South.

Though its impact was epic, the Rosenwald legacy is not widely known today.

Andrew Feiler spent 3 1/2 years photographing 105 of the remaining schools, and he gathered their remarkable stories. He compiled them into a new book called “A Better Life for Their Children: Julius Rosenwald, Booker T. Washington, and the 4,978 Schools That Changed America.”