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Julius Rosenwald

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Julius Rosenwald (August 12, 1862 – January 6, 1932) was an American businessman and philanthropist. [1]

79 relations: Abraham Lincoln, Accounting, Adler Planetarium, African Americans, Alvah Curtis Roebuck, American Civil War, American Jews, Apprenticeship, Armand Deutsch, Arnold Denker, Aviva Kempner, Booker T. Washington, Business magnate, Charitable trust, Chess prodigy, Chicago, Chicago River, College, Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, Department store, Donor intent, Emil G. Hirsch, German Confederation, Goldman Sachs, Grace Abbott, Great Migration (African American), Gross national product, Henry Goldman, Henry Morgenthau Sr., Highland Park, Illinois, Illinois, Initial public offering, Jane Addams, Jews, Julian Mack, Larry Parr (chess player), Leopold and Loeb, Lessing J. Rosenwald, Liberty ship, Longue Vue House and Gardens, Matching funds, Max Adler (Sears), Merchandise Mart, Michigan Avenue (Chicago), Michigan Boulevard Garden Apartments, Museum, Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago), New York City, Nina Rosenwald, Panama City, Florida, ..., Panic of 1893, Paul J. Sachs, Philanthropy, Preschool, Progressivism, Racial segregation, Reform Judaism, Richard Warren Sears, Rosehill Cemetery, Rosenwald (film), Rosenwald Fund, Rosenwald School, Rural area, Samuel Reshevsky, Sears, Secaucus, New Jersey, South, Springfield, Illinois, State school, Tailor, The New York Times, Thrill killing, Tuskegee University, United States Department of Agriculture, University, University of Chicago, Wabash Avenue YMCA, William Henry Baldwin Jr., William Rosenwald. Expand index (29 more) »

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.

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Accounting

Accounting or accountancy is the measurement, processing, and communication of financial information about economic entities such as businesses and corporations.

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Adler Planetarium

The Adler Planetarium is a public museum dedicated to the study of astronomy and astrophysics.

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African Americans

African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.

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Alvah Curtis Roebuck

Alvah Curtis Roebuck (January 9, 1864 – June 18, 1948) was the co-founder of Sears, Roebuck and Company with his partner Richard Warren Sears.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.

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American Jews

American Jews, or Jewish Americans, are Americans who are Jews, whether by religion, ethnicity or nationality.

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Apprenticeship

An apprenticeship is a system of training a new generation of practitioners of a trade or profession with on-the-job training and often some accompanying study (classroom work and reading).

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Armand Deutsch

Armand Deutsch (January 25, 1913 – August 13, 2005) was an American film producer and grandson of philanthropist and Sears CEO Julius Rosenwald.

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Arnold Denker

Arnold Sheldon Denker (February 20, 1914 – January 2, 2005) was an American chess player, Grandmaster, and chess author.

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Aviva Kempner

Aviva Kempner (born December 23, 1946) is an American filmmaker.

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Booker T. Washington

Booker Taliaferro Washington (– November 14, 1915) was an American educator, author, orator, and advisor to presidents of the United States.

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Business magnate

A business magnate (formally industrialist) refers to an entrepreneur of great influence, importance, or standing in a particular enterprise or field of business.

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Charitable trust

A charitable trust is an irrevocable trust established for charitable purposes and, in some jurisdictions, a more specific term than "charitable organization".

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Chess prodigy

Chess prodigies are children who can beat experienced adult players and even Masters at chess.

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Chicago

Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.

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Chicago River

The Chicago River is a system of rivers and canals with a combined length of that runs through the city of Chicago, including its center (the Chicago Loop).

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College

A college (Latin: collegium) is an educational institution or a constituent part of one.

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Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service

The Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES) is an agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), part of the executive branch of the federal government.

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Department store

A department store is a retail establishment offering a wide range of consumer goods in different product categories known as "departments".

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Donor intent

In philanthropy, donor intent is the purpose, sometimes publicly expressed, for which a philanthropist intends a charitable gift or bequest.

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Emil G. Hirsch

Emil Gustav Hirsch (May 22, 1851 – January 7, 1923) was a major Reform movement rabbi in the United States.

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German Confederation

The German Confederation (Deutscher Bund) was an association of 39 German-speaking states in Central Europe, created by the Congress of Vienna in 1815 to coordinate the economies of separate German-speaking countries and to replace the former Holy Roman Empire, which had been dissolved in 1806.

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Goldman Sachs

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is an American multinational investment bank and financial services company headquartered in New York City.

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Grace Abbott

Grace Abbott (November 17, 1878 – June 19, 1939) was an American social worker who specifically worked in improving the rights of immigrants and advancing child welfare, especially the regulation of child labor.

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Great Migration (African American)

The Great Migration was the movement of 6 million African-Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1916 and 1970.

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Gross national product

Gross national product (GNP) is the market value of all the goods and services produced in one year by labor and property supplied by the citizens of a country.

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Henry Goldman

Henry Goldman (September 21, 1857 – April 4, 1937) was an American heir, banker, philanthropist and art collector.

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Henry Morgenthau Sr.

Henry Morgenthau (April 26, 1856 – November 25, 1946) was an American lawyer, businessman and United States ambassador, most famous as the American ambassador to the Ottoman Empire during the First World War.

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Highland Park, Illinois

Highland Park is a suburban city in Lake County, Illinois, United States, about north of downtown Chicago.

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Illinois

Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Initial public offering

Initial public offering (IPO) or stock market launch is a type of public offering in which shares of a company are sold to institutional investors and usually also retail (individual) investors; an IPO is underwritten by one or more investment banks, who also arrange for the shares to be listed on one or more stock exchanges.

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Jane Addams

Jane Addams (September 8, 1860May 21, 1935), known as the "mother" of social work, was a pioneer American settlement activist/reformer, social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, public administrator, protestor, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace.

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Jews

Jews (יְהוּדִים ISO 259-3, Israeli pronunciation) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and a nation, originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The people of the Kingdom of Israel and the ethnic and religious group known as the Jewish people that descended from them have been subjected to a number of forced migrations in their history" and Hebrews of the Ancient Near East.

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Julian Mack

Julian William Mack (July 19, 1866 – September 5, 1943) was a United States federal judge and social reformer.

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Larry Parr (chess player)

Lawrence "Larry" Parr (May 21, 1946 – April 2, 2011) was a chess player, author and editor.

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Leopold and Loeb

Nathan Freudenthal Leopold Jr. (November 19, 1904 – August 29, 1971) and Richard Albert Loeb (June 11, 1905 – January 28, 1936), usually referred to collectively as Leopold and Loeb, were two wealthy students at the University of Chicago who in May 1924 kidnapped and murdered 14-year-old Robert Franks in Chicago.

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Lessing J. Rosenwald

Lessing Julius Rosenwald (February 10, 1891 – June 24, 1979) was an American businessman, a collector of rare books and art, a chess patron, and a philanthropist.

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Liberty ship

Liberty ships were a class of cargo ship built in the United States during World War II.

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Longue Vue House and Gardens

Longue Vue House and Gardens, also known as Longue Vue, is a historic house museum and associated gardens at 7 Bamboo Road in the Lakewood neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.

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Matching funds

Matching funds are funds that are set to be paid in equal amount to funds available from other sources.

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Max Adler (Sears)

Max Adler (May 12, 1866 – November 4, 1952) was born in Elgin, Illinois to a German Jewish family who emigrated to America in about 1850.

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Merchandise Mart

The Merchandise Mart (or the Merch Mart, or the Mart) is a commercial building located in the downtown Chicago, Illinois.

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Michigan Avenue (Chicago)

Michigan Avenue is a north-south street in Chicago which runs at 100 east on the Chicago grid.

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Michigan Boulevard Garden Apartments

Michigan Boulevard Garden Apartments (also known as the Rosenwald Apartments) is a large apartment building located in the Bronzeville neighborhood of the South Side of Chicago, Illinois.

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Museum

A museum (plural musea or museums) is an institution that cares for (conserves) a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance.

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Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago)

The Museum of Science and Industry (MSI) is located in Chicago, Illinois, in Jackson Park, in the Hyde Park neighborhood between Lake Michigan and The University of Chicago.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Nina Rosenwald

Nina Rosenwald is an American political activist and philanthropist.

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Panama City, Florida

Panama City is a city and the county seat of Bay County, Florida, United States.

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Panic of 1893

The Panic of 1893 was a serious economic depression in the United States that began in 1893 and ended in 1897.

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Paul J. Sachs

Paul Joseph Sachs (November 24, 1878 – February 18, 1965) was an American Investor, businessman and museum director.

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Philanthropy

Philanthropy means the love of humanity.

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Preschool

A preschool, also known as nursery school, pre-primary school, playschool or kindergarten, is an educational establishment or learning space offering early childhood education to children before they begin compulsory education at primary school.

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Progressivism

Progressivism is the support for or advocacy of improvement of society by reform.

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Racial segregation

Racial segregation is the separation of people into racial or other ethnic groups in daily life.

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Reform Judaism

Reform Judaism (also known as Liberal Judaism or Progressive Judaism) is a major Jewish denomination that emphasizes the evolving nature of the faith, the superiority of its ethical aspects to the ceremonial ones, and a belief in a continuous revelation not centered on the theophany at Mount Sinai.

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Richard Warren Sears

Richard Warren Sears (December 7, 1863 – September 28, 1914) was an American manager, businessman, and the founder of Sears, Roebuck and Company with his partner Alvah Curtis Roebuck.

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Rosehill Cemetery

Rosehill Cemetery (founded 1864) is an American Victorian-era cemetery on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois, and at, is the largest cemetery in the City of Chicago.

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Rosenwald (film)

Rosenwald is a 2015 documentary film directed by Aviva Kempner about the career of American businessman and philanthropist Julius Rosenwald.

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Rosenwald Fund

The Rosenwald Fund (also known as the Rosenwald Foundation, the Julius Rosenwald Fund, and the Julius Rosenwald Foundation) was established in 1917 by Julius Rosenwald and his family for "the well-being of mankind." Rosenwald became part-owner of Sears, Roebuck and Company in 1895, serving as its president from 1908 to 1922, and chairman of its Board of Directors until his death in 1932.

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Rosenwald School

In informal usage, a Rosenwald School was any of the over five thousand schools, shops, and teachers' homes in the United States which were built primarily for the education of African-American children in the South in the early 20th century.

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Rural area

In general, a rural area or countryside is a geographic area that is located outside towns and cities.

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Samuel Reshevsky

Samuel Herman Reshevsky (born Szmul Rzeszewski; November 26, 1911 – April 4, 1992) was a Polish chess prodigy and later a leading American chess grandmaster.

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Sears

Sears, Roebuck and Company, colloquially known as Sears, is an American chain of department stores founded by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck in 1892, reincorporated (a formality for a history-making consumer sector initial public offering) by Richard Sears and new partner Julius Rosenwald in 1906.

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Secaucus, New Jersey

Secaucus is a town in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States.

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South

South is one of the four cardinal directions or compass points.

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Springfield, Illinois

Springfield is the capital of the U.S. state of Illinois and the county seat of Sangamon County.

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State school

State schools (also known as public schools outside England and Wales)In England and Wales, some independent schools for 13- to 18-year-olds are known as 'public schools'.

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Tailor

A tailor is a person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing professionally, especially suits and men's clothing.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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Thrill killing

A thrill killing is premeditated murder that is motivated by the sheer excitement of the act.

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Tuskegee University

Tuskegee University is a private, historically black university (HBCU) located in Tuskegee, Alabama, United States.

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United States Department of Agriculture

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), also known as the Agriculture Department, is the U.S. federal executive department responsible for developing and executing federal laws related to farming, forestry, and food.

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University

A university (universitas, "a whole") is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in various academic disciplines.

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University of Chicago

The University of Chicago (UChicago, U of C, or Chicago) is a private, non-profit research university in Chicago, Illinois.

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Wabash Avenue YMCA

The Wabash Avenue YMCA is a Chicago Landmark located within the Chicago Landmark Black Metropolis-Bronzeville Historic District in the Douglas community area of Chicago, Illinois.

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William Henry Baldwin Jr.

William Henry Baldwin Jr. (February 5, 1863 – January 3, 1905) was a president of the Long Island Rail Road from Boston, Massachusetts.

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William Rosenwald

William Rosenwald (August 19, 1903 – October 31, 1996) was an American businessman and philanthropist.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Rosenwald

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