JR later established the Rosenwald Fund Fellowship, which awarded grants to talented African Americans. Winners include W. E. B. Du Bois, Ralph Bunche, James Baldwin, Marian Anderson, Langston Hughes, Maya Angelou, and John Hope Franklin. He also provided the major funding for Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry, conceived of during the time when Inez Milholland was kicking off her speaking tour for the National Woman’s Party.
