Author Peter M. Ascoli will deliver a lecture on Julius Rosenwald, the architect of Sears, Roebuck, and CO.’s rise in the early 20th century, at New York University on Thurs., Nov. 16, 5:30 p.m. at NYU’s Jurow Lecture Hall, Silver Center for Arts and Science (100 Washington Square East at Washington Place). The event is free and open to the public. Please call 212.998.8100 for more information.
Author Peter M. Ascoli will deliver a lecture on Julius Rosenwald, the architect of Sears, Roebuck, and CO.’s rise in the early 20th century, at New York University on Thurs., Nov. 16, 5:30 p.m. at NYU’s Jurow Lecture Hall, Silver Center for Arts and Science (100 Washington Square East at Washington Place).
The event is free and open to the public. Please call 212.998.8100 for more information.
Ascoli, a faculty member at Chicago’s Spertus College and a grandson of Rosenwald, is the author of Julius Rosenwald: The Man Who Built Sears, Roebuck and Advanced the Cause of Black Education in the American South (Indiana University Press, 2006). In addition to engineering Sears, Roebuck, and CO.’s transformation, Rosenwald established more than 5,000 “Rosenwald schools” throughout the South for poor, rural black youth, and added 4,000 libraries to existing schools. The network of new public schools employed more than 14,000 teachers.
- Who: Peter M. Ascoli, author of Julius Rosenwald: The Man Who Built Sears, Roebuck and Advanced the Cause of Black Education in the American South
- What: Lecture-“Julius Rosenwald: Business Leader, Pioneering Philanthropist, Humanitarian”
- When: Thurs., Nov. 16,5:30 p.m.
- Where: NYU’s Jurow Lecture Hall, Silver Center (100 Washington Square East) [Subway Lines: A, B, C, D, E, F, V (West 4th Street); R, W (8th Street); 6 (Astor Place)]
Reporters interested in attending the lecture must contact James Devitt, Office of Public Affairs, at 212.998.6808 or james.devitt@nyu.edu.