Lincoln Presidential Foundation

Rosenwald Exhibit

2024

$75,000

The Lincoln Presidential Foundation is developing a permanent exhibition on Julius Rosenwald, the Jewish philanthropist and executive of Sears, Roebuck & Co. who partnered with Black leaders to build 5,000 schools for Black students throughout the segregated South. The exhibit, physically located in Rosenwald’s childhood home, which is within the 12-acre Lincoln Home National Historic Site in Springfield, IL will be the first permanent core exhibit on a Jewish American in the first structure named for a Jewish American in any U.S. National Park Service Unit. The Lincoln Presidential Foundation began this project with an “Inclusive Storytelling Grant” from the National Park Foundation provided to correct or fill gaps in the national narrative presented at National Park sites and funding from RPF will help them complete it.