Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum Opens Special Exhibition: A Better Life for Their Children, Photographs and Stories by Andrew Feiler

On view from March 7 to August 17, the exhibition highlights the 4,978 schools built by Booker T. Washington and Julius Rosenwald for Black children in the early 1900s

DALLAS, March 5, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — The Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum announces a new special exhibition, A Better Life for Their Children: Julius Rosenwald, Booker T. Washington, and the 4,978 Schools that Changed America, open to the public from March 7 through August 17, 2025. Through photographs and stories curated by esteemed photographer and author, Andrew Feiler, the exhibition showcases the ambitious program to build thousands of schools for Black children across the segregated South and Southwest, including in Texas, from 1912 to 1937. The schools confronted the deep educational disparities of the time and profoundly shaped the nation, fostering a generation of civil rights leaders and activists.