Please join Norman H. Finkelstein for a talk about his new book, Schools of Hope: How Julius Rosenwald Helped Change African American Education. At the beginning of the 20th century, during a time of segregation and great desparity, the wealthy Rosenwald, president of Sears, Roebuck and Company set up a special fund to build schools for African American children. Schools of Hope is the story of that endeavor for readers eight and up.
4:00pm
UConn Co-op Bookstore at Storrs Center
Recently retired as a public school librarian, Finkelstein is the author of eighteen nonfiction books for adults and young readers. Two of his titles, Heeding the Call and Forged in Freedom won the National Jewish Book Award. His biography of Edward R. Murrow, With Heroic Truth, received the Golden Kite Honor Award for Nonfiction.
Norman Finkelstein is a guest of the UConn Co-op Bookstore at Storrs Center, Judaic Studies, the African American Studies Institute and the Archives & Special Collections at the UConn Libraries.
For more information, contact: Terri Goldich at terri.goldich@lib.uconn.edu