A Better Life for Their Children

 

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A better life for their children:
PHOTOGRAPHY BY ANDREW FEILER

Temporary Exhibit | Spring - winter 2021
National Center for Civil and Human Rights
role: lead Exhibit Designer 


 

Julius Rosenwald and Booker T. Washington forged one of the earliest collaborations between Jews and African Americans to create schools throughout the nation for black children who had no access to publicly funded education. From 1912 to 1937, the Rosenwald schools program built 4,978 schools for African American children across fifteen southern and border states. For the first comprehensive photographic account of the Rosenwald Schools program, Andrew Feiler drove more than 25,000 miles and photographed 105 schools in all fifteen of the program states. The work includes interiors and exteriors, schools restored and yet-to-be restored, and portraits of people with compelling connections to these schools

Role: Lead exhibit designer, assisted with curation, created marketing materials and oversaw production and installation of the exhibit.

Explore the digital exhibit on Google Arts & Culture.

 


in the press:

Atlanta photographer documents the life-changing Rosenwald schools
Atlanta journal-constitution | By Bo Emerson | June 11, 2021

“New exhibit on African American schools debuts at Civil Rights Museum”
DECATUrish | by Zoe Seiler | May 21, 2021

Rosenwald Schools (Interview w/ Andrew Feiler)
Archive Atlanta podcast

“The 4,978 schools that fueled a movement”
Atlanta magazine | by HEATHER BUCKNER | JULY 28, 2021

“The 4,978 Schools That Changed America”
the wall street journal | By Andrew Feiler | April 22, 2021

Created in partnership with:

the National Center for Civil and Human Rights
Photographer & author: Andrew Feiler
head curator: Dr. Calinda Lee