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Rosenwald
Screening in partnership with The Richard T. Greener Institute for Social Policy Research. The Richard T. Greener Institute is an organization that conducts research to find policy solutions for economic and social problems at state and national levels. It is named after Richard Theodore Greener, the first African-American professor at the University of South Carolina.
Panel discussion after the film featuring:
- Zach Bjur, Project Manager for the Rosenwald School Project for CVSC
- Dr. Val Littlefiled, USC African American Studies, Principal Investigator for the Rosenwald School Project
- Dawn Dawson-House, Executive Director, WeGoJa, Grant-receiving agency for the Rosenwald School Project
About the film
The Ciesla Foundation is dedicated to producing documentaries with an uplifting social and historical message about unsung Jewish heroes. This film project is Rosenwald, a documentary on the incredible story of how businessman and philanthropist Julius Rosenwald joined with African-American communities in the South to build schools for them during the early part of the 20th century. This historical partnership as well as the modern-day attempts to maintain or reconfigure the schools is a great dramatic story, yet too little-known.
2015. 100 min.