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Support the Rosenberg Fund for Children The Rosenberg Fund for Children envisions a world where no child suffers alone when their family faces repression by providing for the educational and emotional needs of children whose parents have suffered because of their progressive activities....
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RFC Fall Grants: Learn More & Apply
RFC Fall Grants: Learn More & Apply
Grants RFC grants pay for educationally and emotionally supportive activities for children of targeted progressive activists and youth who are targeted activists themselves. Our grants help ensure these kids can attend summer camp, hire a tutor, receive therapy, attend a dance program or participate in other activities that allow them to have fun, process their experiences and heal. They make it possible for these kids not only to survive but thrive, despite the negative targeting their family has experienced.
Newsletter: Fall 2025
Newsletter: Fall 2025
Newsletter Carry it Forward, the RFC's newsletter, is published twice a year in March and September. Each edition describes grants made in the most recent granting cycle, as well as recent events and other RFC news. View the most recent issue of Carry it Forward below.
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The Rosenberg Fund for Children provides educational and emotional support for the children of targeted, progressive activists and also makes grants to young people targeted for their own activism. Recent grants include:
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Exonerate Ethel Rosenberg
Rep. Jim McGovern issues Ethel Rosenberg apology on the House floor
Rep. Jim McGovern issues Ethel Rosenberg apology on the House floor
Massachusetts Congressman Jim McGovern addressed the House floor on February 10, 2025. A key ally in the effort to clear Ethel Rosenberg's good name, the Representative issued an apology to Ethel's family after President Biden failed to do so before leaving office in January. Below is a transcript of the speech...
Democracy Now: Will Biden Exonerate Ethel Rosenberg Posthumously?
Democracy Now: Will Biden Exonerate Ethel Rosenberg Posthumously?
PBS NewsHour: Ethel Rosenberg’s family pushes Biden to exonerate her decades after her execution
PBS NewsHour: Ethel Rosenberg’s family pushes Biden to exonerate her decades after her execution
In 1953, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were executed after being convicted as Soviet spies in a sensational Cold War espionage case. Now, a recently declassified document is seen as the strongest evidence yet of Ethel’s innocence. As Biden leaves office, he’s being asked to exonerate her and right a historic wrong. John Yang speaks with the Rosenbergs’ younger son, Robert Meeropol, for more.
The Nation: President Biden Should Pardon Ethel Rosenberg
The Nation: President Biden Should Pardon Ethel Rosenberg
A newly released classified document shows that the National Security Agency knew Ethel Rosenberg was not a spy—and that the government executed her anyway.
The Boston Globe: Ethel Rosenberg grandchildren urge Biden: Exonerate our grandmother
The Boston Globe: Ethel Rosenberg grandchildren urge Biden: Exonerate our grandmother
The Guardian: Family of Ethel Rosenberg say US document proves she was no Soviet spy (9/10/24)
The Guardian: Family of Ethel Rosenberg say US document proves she was no Soviet spy (9/10/24)
Sons whose mother was executed with her husband Julius in 1953 say newly released document proves innocence
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The Rosenberg Case
The Rosenberg Case
Despite massive, worldwide protest, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were executed on June 19, 1953, at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, NY. They were convicted of Conspiracy to Commit Espionage in one of the most hotly-debated trials in U.S. history.
Abel Meeropol & Strange Fruit
Abel Meeropol & Strange Fruit
Last fall the RFC was a sponsor of the first-ever Abel Meeropol Social Justice Writing Award presented by Straw Dog Writers Guild to poet Patricia Smith. The Guild was co-founded by my mother, Ellen Meeropol (a member of the RFC’s Advisory Board). My father, Robert Meeropol, spoke at the event about his adoptive father, Abel. The following essay was adapted from my dad’s speech. – Jenn Meeropol
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STREAM: The Rosenberg Case 70 Years Later: Fighting Fascism Then and Now
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