A Better Life for Their Children

On view October 19, 2024 to February 23, 2025

 

Inside the Exhibition

The exhibition features 23 black and white photographs of Rosenwald Schools across the country as they exist today. Brief narratives written by Feiler accompany each photograph, telling the stories of Rosenwald schools' connections to the Trail of Tears, the Great Migration, the Tuskegee Airmen, Brown v. Board of Education, and more. Together, photographs and narratives from cities and towns from Texas and throughout the South show the schoolhouses and the people for whom they meant so much.

In addition to the photographs and narratives written by Feiler, the Bullock Museum has borrowed artifacts from Hopewell School in Cedar Creek, Columbia School in West Columbia and Pleasant Hill School in Linden to highlight this part of Texas history within the exhibition. 

A Better Life for Their Children: Julius Rosenwald, Booker T. Washington, and the 4,978 Schools that Changed America is a bilingual exhibition, presented in both English and Spanish.

Learn more at the A Better Life for Their Children exhibition page.

Please submit an Information Request to:

• Schedule a press visit for the exhibition
• Schedule an interview with Bullock Museum staff
• Request images of the exhibition for publication