You need a schoolhouse
Subtitle: Booker T. Washington, Julius Rosenwald, and the building of schools for the segregated South
By: Stephanie Deutsch
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Evanston, Ill
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780810127906
Subjects: Buildings; Friends and associates; Julius Rosenwald Fund; School buildings; Education; African Americans; History; Political and social views
Description: Discusses the friendship between Booker T. Wahington, founder of the Tuskegee Institute, and Julius Rosenwald, president of Sears, Roebuck and Company and how, through their friendship, they were able to build five thousand schools for African Americans in the Southern states.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue, May 1911; title: "No white man; title: could do better"; title: Peddler's son; title: A lucky chance, a daunting task; title: "You need a schoolhouse"; title: An  American citizen; title: Lunch at the Blackstone; title: Between Chicago and Tuskegee; title: Swing low, sweet chariot; title: A school in every county; title: Rosenwald and Main: sweet home; title: Epilogue, May 2011.