Julius Rosenwald: A Force for Change from zora b Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 9 min 58 sec
✓ Published: 01-Jun-2011

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In 2009, Chicago’s Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies presented A Force for Change: African American Art and the Julius Rosenwald Fund, the first exhibition to explore the legacy of the Julius Rosenwald Fund. From 1928 to 1948, the Rosenwald Fund’s Fellowship Program awarded stipends to hundreds of African American artists, writers, teachers, and scholars, as well as white southerners with an interest in race relations. The artists who were Rosenwald Fellows are among the leading artists of