![]() ![]() The Rosenwald Schools story is crucial to the modern success of the United States, and showing how different groups working together to create a better society when those in power did not want to help is an important lesson, Canter said. The Jewish community often saw in the Black community the same kind of violent repression they suffered in Europe, she said. Canter was inspired to get involved after seeing a 2015 documentary on Rosenwald. Rosenwald was the son of Jewish immigrants from Germany and saw in African Americans a chance to help another oppressed group willing to invest what little it could in its own future, said Dorothy Canter, a former Environmental Protection Agency scientist leading the national park effort. It was still less than half of the money Rosenwald donated in his life to other causes including Jewish charities, hospital construction, scientific research and war relief, according to a report from The Campaign To Create a Julius Rosenwald and Rosenwald Schools National Historical Park. That would be worth about $440 million today. Rosenwald gave $20 million to his foundation to build schools and $4 million more to other African American education and welfare causes. ![]()
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