Sky Marshall
UNIV-1002
Professor Calivas
4/6/16
Rosenwald
After taking my seat among many other viewers and being given a brief overview of the importance of kindness and compassion in everyday life (especially in today’s society), the lights fade to darkness and the film begins to roll. “Rosenwald” begins by focusing on a mystifying anomaly. One that, during a time where prejudice ran rampant throughout the whole of the American South and a harsh line was, by many, drawn between Black and White Americans, was found in the most unusual of places. Who is the white man prominently framed on the wall of numerous black schools located throughout the American South? This question turns out to be the thread that unravels a historical and incomprehensible chain of events that have influenced our country’s history in such for ages. …show more content…
Yet that building can only hope to amount to a simple grain of sand when contrasted with the of former Sears & Roebuck CEO Julius Rosenwald’s towering legacy. For who he was and the actions that were taken by him, Rosenwald had much under his belt, including one which is quite unexpected: a high school dropout, a brilliant entrepreneur, a profit-driven businessman and a fiercely devoted philanthropist. His family’s house was located across the street from President Lincoln’s Springfield residence. The film even goes as far as assuming that Rosenwald may have been a key link in the time after Lincoln’s death and Obama own upbringing, in how the black schools he assisted in building (which numbered over 5,300) educated the generation that preceded the civil rights
UNIV-1002
Professor Calivas
4/6/16
Rosenwald
After taking my seat among many other viewers and being given a brief overview of the importance of kindness and compassion in everyday life (especially in today’s society), the lights fade to darkness and the film begins to roll. “Rosenwald” begins by focusing on a mystifying anomaly. One that, during a time where prejudice ran rampant throughout the whole of the American South and a harsh line was, by many, drawn between Black and White Americans, was found in the most unusual of places. Who is the white man prominently framed on the wall of numerous black schools located throughout the American South? This question turns out to be the thread that unravels a historical and incomprehensible chain of events that have influenced our country’s history in such for ages. …show more content…
Yet that building can only hope to amount to a simple grain of sand when contrasted with the of former Sears & Roebuck CEO Julius Rosenwald’s towering legacy. For who he was and the actions that were taken by him, Rosenwald had much under his belt, including one which is quite unexpected: a high school dropout, a brilliant entrepreneur, a profit-driven businessman and a fiercely devoted philanthropist. His family’s house was located across the street from President Lincoln’s Springfield residence. The film even goes as far as assuming that Rosenwald may have been a key link in the time after Lincoln’s death and Obama own upbringing, in how the black schools he assisted in building (which numbered over 5,300) educated the generation that preceded the civil rights