Rosenwald

This documentary should be shown on every secondary school and college campus. It is the story of a man who acquired wealth and influence, so it is a motivational story.

Well done documentaries educate us in interesting ways, but so often they leave us angry or frustrated or worse. This film about Julius Rosenwald, a man I never heard of before, is uplifting and inspiring at the same time it tells a story that few people know about a Jewish businessman who helped build and ultimately owned Sears Roebuck, whose generosity built more than 5,000 schools for African Americans in the rural south who otherwise would have been educated in one-room shacks.