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Prologue: May 1911 -- "No white man ... could do better" -- Peddler's son -- A lucky chance, a daunting task -- "You need a schoolhouse" -- An American citizen -- Lunch at the Blackstone -- Between Chicago and Tuskegee -- Swing low, sweet chariot -- A school in every county -- Rosenwald and Main: sweet home -- Epilogue: May 2011.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-206) and index.
Summary
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.