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official film site: http://www.pacificstreetfilms.com/

From Swastika to Jim Crow

USA, 1999, video, 60 minutes
English
Directors: Lori Cheatle and Martin D. Toub
World Premiere

Sunday, December 12, 2:45 pm
Cecile Goldman Theater
$7.50


Professor Ernst Borinski with students at Tougaloo College graduation


Based in part on research originally conducted by the late Gabrielle Simon Edgcomb, this important documentary recovers the lost stories of the "refugee scholars." These Jewish academics, mostly from Germany, fled Nazism to the United States. All but a few found themselves turned away from major universities, the victims of anti-Semitic quotas and a general national mood of xenophobia. However, Black colleges like Howard University, Hampton University and North Carolina Central welcomed them as faculty members and a unique partnership was formed. Once hired on, the refugees entered into a "double alien world," the segregated world of blacks living under Jim Crow laws and the alien culture of white, Protestant American. The film recounts the personal stories of the professors and the African-American students whose lives they profoundly affected.

Co-Sponsored by the Afro-American Studies Department, 
Howard University

Special Guests: 

Lori Cheatle, Director
Dr. Russell Adams, Director of Afro-American Studies, Howard University
Joyce Ladner, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution, (studied under Ernst Borinski at Tougaloo College)
Professor John Herz
, Professor of Political Science, Howard University, 1941-43 and 1948-52
Steve Fischler and Joel Sucher, Producers

Moderator: 

Larry Moffi, Managing Editor, 
CommonQuest
Magazine; Poet and Baseball Historian

 


From Swastika to Jim Crow
is reviewed by David Horowitz in the December 1999/January 2000 issue of Washington Review magazine.

official film site: http://www.pacificstreetfilms.com/

Distributed by Pacific Street Films, USA
http://www.pacificstreetfilms.com/

 

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