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| 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 |
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| 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
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