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Sunday Screening of Rosenwald

Join us for a screening of Rosenwald at 2 p.m. on Sunday, May 19, in the Craig H. Neilsen Auditorium of the Two Mississippi Museums. Directed by Aviva Kempner, this documentary tells the story of Julius Rosenwald, a Jewish businessman and philanthropist who worked with African American communities to build schools in the Jim Crow South. The run time for this film is 95 minutes. A Q&A session will feature Stuart Rockoff, director of the Mississippi Humanities Council, moderating a panel with Sylvia Gist, founder of the Migration Heritage Foundation, and Jennifer Baughn, MDAH chief architectural historian. For more information, call 601-576-6850 or email info@mdah.ms.gov.