From Swastika to Jim Crow (2001)
Directed by Lori Cheatle / Martin Toub
Genres - Historical Film |
Sub-Genres - Biography, Race & Ethnicity, Social History |
Run Time - 60 min. |
Countries - United States |
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Synopsis
Recalling the contributions of some 50 German Jewish professors, expelled by the Nazis, who found positions at predominantly black colleges, mostly in the American South. "I felt I had so much in common with the teachers and students," says one. That's hardly surprising---as the hour makes plain in juxtaposed clips of Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan. Interviewees include Ernst Manasse (North Carolina Central University, 1939-73; and John Herz (Howard University, 1941-53).
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academic [person], African-American, anti-Semitism, camaraderie, Civil-Rights, college, community, culture-clash, discrimination, Germany, immigrant, Jewish, opportunity, oppression, persecution, professor, rurality, segregation, south
