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''Rosenwald'' is a 2015 documentary film directed by Aviva Kempner about the career of American businessman and philanthropist Julius Rosenwald. It debuted on February 25, 2015 at the Washington Jewish Film Festival. ==Synopsis== The documentary features interviews with a number of people, including Peter Ascoli, grandson and biographer of Rosenwald, Julian Bond, Stephanie Deutsch, Richard J. Powell, Eugene Robinson and George C. Wolfe. The film begins with an account of Rosenwald's rise from a job in the clothing business of his father, a German-Jewish immigrant, to the chairmanship of Sears-Roebuck, which he then builds into the world's largest retailer. Shocked by reports of anti-Jewish pogroms in Russia, he realizes that America's treatment of Negroes is no better and marshals his fortune to improving their condition. He develops a friendship with Booker T. Washington, helps Tuskegee Institute and then begins building schoolhouses for Negro children across the American South. With fundraising and sweat equity participation from local communities, he manages to construct 5,357 Rosenwald schools by the time of his death in 1932, about one-third of all elementary schools available for African Americans prior to the end of U.S. school segregation in 1954. Other Rosenwald-supported projects depicted in the film include establishing 25 YMCA-YWCAs for African-Americans, founding the Museum of Science and Industry, building the Michigan Boulevard Garden Apartments, a housing project for blacks moving to Chicago, and helping pay for the training the Tuskegee Airmen. The documentary concludes by chronicling the impact of the Rosenwald Fund which awarded grants to many black artists and writers in the mid-twentieth century, including a large number of well-known African Americans. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rosenwald (film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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