History
Unlike other endowed foundations, which were designed to fund themselves in perpetuity, the Rosenwald Fund was designed to expend all of its funds for philanthropic purposes before a predetermined "sunset date." It donated over $70 million to public schools,Notable fellowship recipients
This is a selected list of notable Rosenwald Fund Fellowship recipients from the years the fund's fellowship program was active, 1928-1948.1928
*1929
* Frances Davis, nurse and activist *1930
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*1932
* Wallace A. Battle, education reformer and university founder *1933
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*1936
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* Arna W. Bontemps, poet, writer, and librarian; returning fellow 1942 *1939
*1940
*1941
* Cleo W. Blackburn, social scientist and college president * David Blackwell, mathematician * Herman Branson, physicist, chemist, and college president * William Montague Cobb, physician and anthropologist * Helen Octavia Dickens, physician and writer * John Henry Faulk, storyteller and radio host; 1941-1942 fellowship * Cornelius Golightly, teacher, civil rights activist, and education administrator * Adelaide M. Cromwell, sociologist, historian, and preservationist; returning fellow 1944 * Thomas C. Lea III, artist, writer, and historian * Mabel Murphy Smythe-Haith, economist, civil rights activist, and diplomat * Samuel Z. Westerfield Jr., Samuel Z. Westerfield, Jr., economist and diplomat * Bell I. Wiley, Bell Wiley, historian * Gordon Willey, Gordon Randolph Willey, archaeologist and anthropologist * Margaret Just Butcher, literary scholar, writer, and civil rights activist; 1941-1942 fellowship1942
* Thomas Bell (novelist), Thomas Bell, writer * Sterling Allen Brown, folklorist, poet, and literary critic * Joseph Delaney (artist), Joseph Delaney, artist * Owen Dodson, poet, novelist, and playwright * Wade Ellis, mathematician * * * William Fontaine, philosopher * * * Margaret Morgan Lawrence, psychiatrist and writer * * Arthur S. Link, historian; returning fellow 1944 * Herman H. Long, social scientist and college president * Jesse W. Markham, economist * *1943
* Julien Binford, painter * Mildred Blount, fashion designer * Marcus Bruce Christian, poet, writer, and folklorist * * Woody Guthrie, singer-songwriter * Roi Ottley, journalist * * Thomas Sancton Sr., Thomas Sancton, novelist and journalist; returning fellow 1945, 1947 * Hudson Strode, writer * Julius H. Taylor, physicist * Hale Woodruff, artist; 1943-1944 fellowship1944
* Margaret Bush Wilson, lawyer and activist * Esther Cooper Jackson, civil rights activist and social worker * E. Franklin Frazier, sociologist and writer * Robert Gwathmey, artist * * * Chester Himes, writer * * * Rayford Logan, historian * Pauli Murray, lawyer, activist, and writer * * Margaret Walker, poet and writer1945
* Conrad Albrizio, painter; 1945-1946 fellowship * * * Janet Collins, dancer and choreographer * * Woody Crumbo, artist, musician and dancer * Dean Dixon, conductor; 1945-1946 fellowship * *1946
* Evelyn Boyd Granville, Evelyn Boyd, mathematician * Nat Caldwell, journalist *1947
* William Artis, sculptor * Byron Burford, painter * Edward Burrows, historian and civil rights activist * Martin Dibner, writer * Grace Towns Hamilton, politician and social justice advocate * Robert Hayden, Robert E. Hayden, writer and U.S. Poet Laureate * Blyden Jackson, writer and literary critic * Ulysses Kay, composer; 1947-1948 fellowship * Thomas Hal Phillips, novelist, actor and screenwriter * * John Rhoden, sculptor * * George C. Stoney, documentary filmmaker * Alonzo Smythe Yerby, physician and public health official1948
* James Baldwin, novelist, playwright, poet and activist * Roscoe C. Brown Jr., Roscoe C. Brown, Jr., Tuskegee Airman, television and radio host, and college president * William J. Cousins, William James Cousins, sociologist * L’Tanya Griffin, fashion designer * * Elizabeth Harold Sturz, Elizabeth L. Sturz, poet and social worker * Samuel L. Myers Sr., Samuel L. Myers, economist and university president * Marion Perkins, sculptor * Liston Pope, pastor, theologian, and university dean * Pearl Primus, dancer, choreographer, and anthropologist * * Oscar W. Ritchie, sociologist * Haywood Rivers, artist and gallerist * Samuel Reid Spencer Jr., Samuel Reid Spencer, Jr., college presidentSee also
*Rosenwald Schools *Rosenwald (film) *Julian Mack *Henry H. Rogers *Booker T. WashingtonReferences
Further reading
* Perkins, Alfred. ''Edwin Rogers Embree: The Julius Rosenwald Fund, Foundation Philanthropy, and American Race Relations'' (Indiana UP, 2011External links