Summary
The Rosenwald Schools by Aviva Kempner is a documentary about how Chicago philanthropist Julius Rosenwald, the son of an immigrant peddler who rose to head Sears, partnered with Booker T. Washington to build 5,400 Southern schools in African American communities in the early 1900s during the Jim Crow era.
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Critics vs audiences
Audiences a little warmer than critics (+8)
Critics 81Audiences 89GoodWatch 70
Tomatometer94%
Metascore67
Audience score97%
IMDb8.1
Running time
1 h 40 min
A typical length for documentaries
typical 96100Half of all documentaries run 89–107 min.
Released
2015
April 19, 2015
11 years ago
Genre
DocumentaryLanguage
English
Original language
Made in
United States
Directing · 1
- Aviva Kempner Director
Camera · 1
- Roger Grange Director of Photography
Editing · 1
- Marian Sears Hunter Editor
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