in 1928, retired from sears, rosenwald reorganized his fund and hired a professional, edwin embry, to manage the fund. enthusiastich support, the fund introduced a new program to further invest in people. they had invested in schools. now they would invest in fellowships to individual scholars and crated workers as they called them. almost 1928 and 1948, 900 of these fellowship were awarded, the vast majority to african-americans. the roster of men and women these rosenwald fellowships reads like a who's who of african american achievement, both scholarly and artistic. among them are big names. you heard jacob lawrence. marian anderson, claude mckay, langston hughes, ralph ellison who used his grant to help them during a long. it took him to write abysmal man. aaron douglas -- to write the invisible man. franklin, ralph bunch, elizabeth kaplan. there were less well known but no less important figures who became scholars, lawyers, minister eight or, people like horace mann bond, frank lynn fraser, kenneth clark and mei mei clark, rayford logan, pauline murray, dr. charles drew and many