Rosenwald
Proper noun
Meaning
Rosenwald (plural Rosenwalds)
A surname from German.
Examples
By 1908 Rosenwald, son of an immigrant clothier, had become part-owner and president of Sears, Roebuck and Company in Chicago.
Later in 1912 Rosenwald provided funds for a pilot program to build six new small schools in rural Alabama.
Three Rosenwald Schools, as the schools came to be called, were built in Pasquotank County.
Beginning in 1913, the first 80 Rosenwald Schools were built in Alabama for African-American children.
Hajo, p. 85. Sanger secured funding from the Julius Rosenwald Fund and opened the clinic, staffed with black doctors, in 1930.
In 1938 the Rosenwald Fund provided money for Alston to travel to the South, which was his first return there since leaving as a child.