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Julius Rosenwald ran Sears, Roebuck and Company as it grew into the country's dominant retailer, but his lasting legacy is the Rosenwald Fund, which partnered with Booker T. Washington to build nearly 5,000 schools for Black children across the segregated South, along with funding close to a thousand individual fellowships. He served on the Chicago Commission on Race Relations after the city's 1919 riots, and founded and funded Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry.