Topic: Youth
Black Education and Rockefeller Philanthropy from the Jim Crow South to the Civil Rights Era
Applying a vast fortune to the American race problem, but with decades of false assumptions and well-intended approaches that fell short.
Who Belongs in the Boy Scouts? Philanthropy’s Support for Black Scouting
A foundation struggled one of America’s oldest youth organizations more racially inclusive. But it only got so far under Jim Crow.
The Origins of the Rockefeller Foundation Equal Opportunity Program
How a simple grant request seeded the launch of a full program addressing inequality.
Photo Essay: The Rockefeller Sanitary Commission and the South
How battling hookworm on rural farms laid the groundwork for a global public health system.
Can Data Drive Social Change? Tackling School Segregation with Numbers
In the years before Brown v. Board, a philanthropic fund hoped research and data would turn the tide on attitudes toward segregation.