When Booker T. Washington, the famed African American educator, asked Julius Rosenwald, the wealthy president of Sears, Roebuck and Company and noted philanthropist, to help him build well-designed and fully equipped schools for black children, the face of educatiion in the South changed for the better. It was the early 1900's, a time of discrimination, racial segregation, and inadequate educator for African Americans. Rosenwald created a special fund that in jus twenty years guild more than 5300 schools attended by 600,000 black students. In this inspiring story, noted nonfiction writer Norman H. Finkelstein spotlights one man's legacy abnd the power of community action. Includes quotations, a detailed bibliography, and index.