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VI (1910-11), 1712; Dictionary of American Biography, XXII (New York, 1958),
606-609.
46. Who's Who m America, VI (1910-11), 1712-13; New York Times, June 25,
1912, p. 1, June 28, 1912, p. 13; National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, XXX
(New York, 1943), 264.
47. Who Was Who in America, IV (Chicago, 1968), 822; Arthur Sachs to Nancy J.
Weiss, Sept. 28, Oct. I 2, 1971; Ella Sachs Plotz quoted in "Who's Who in the Urban
League Movement," Urban League Bulletin (May 1922), 8, Robert R. Moton Papers,
National Urban League folder, Tuskegee Institute.
48. It was Sachs who took the lead in entreating Rosenwald to support the Urban
League in its earliest years. See, for example, Paul J. Sachs to Julius Rosenwald, June
27, 1914, Julius Rosenwald Papers, Box 18, University of Chicago Library;
Rosenwald to Sachs, June 30, 1914, ibid, (in which Rosenwald recalled "the verbal
guarantee I made in your office in New York, 6/25/13, to pay 20%" of the League's
annual budget for five years "when 100% of the budget has been guaranteed"); L.
Hollingsworth Wood to George Edmund Haynes, George Edmund Haynes Papers,
Erastus Milo Cravath Library, Fisk University; Sachs to Wood, May 22, 1915, L.
Hollingsworth Wood Papers (at the time I used them, in the custody of Mrs. L.
Hollingsworth Wood and Mr. and Mrs. James Wood, Mount Kisco, NY).
49. The story of the Lincoln influence comes from Rosenwald's grandson, Philip
Stern, as recounted by Susan Willens, Aug. 20, 1994, Princeton, NJ. The published
account comes from Pauline K. Angell, "Julius Rosenwaid," American Jewish Year
Book, XXXIV (Philadelphia, 1932), 160-61. Paul Sachs brought Baldwin's biography
and Washington's autobiography to Rosenwald's attention. Peter M. Ascoli to
Nancy Weiss Malkiel, Feb. 6, 1995.
50. Edwin R. Embree and Julia Waxman, Investment in People: The Story of the
Julius Rosenwald Fund(New York, 1949), provides the most complete account of the
Rosenwald philanthropies. The Rosenwald quote comes from an interview in the
Chicago Broad Ax, Feb. 19, 1921.
51. In fiscal 1912, the League's annual budget was under $15,000; five years after,
it had grown by roughly 60 percent. Rosenwald's annual contributions to the
National Urban League are listed on an undated sheet marked "National Urban
League," Rosenwald Papers, Box 75. In 1922, Rosenwald's gift was reduced to
$1,500; for the remainder of the 1920s, it was usually $1,000. Rosenwald was the
financial mainstay of the Chicago Urban League in its earliest years; see Arvarh E.
Strickland, History of the Chicago Urban League (Urbana, 1966), pp. 32-34, 37-38,
74-78, 96-98.
52. A. Gilbert Belles, "The Julius Rosenwald Fund: Efforts in Race Relations,
1928-1948" (Ph.D. dissertation, Vanderbilt University, 1972), ch. 8; Raymond S.