Film Screening:

From Swastika to Jim Crow

(Lori Cheatle, Martin D. Toub, 2000, 60 min, USA, in English, B&W, DVD)

-- Discussion to follow with Dr. Leonard Rogoff, research historian of the Jewish Heritage Foundation of North Carolina and author of Down Home: Jewish Life in North Carolina.

From Swastika to Jim Crow is a fascinating and moving one-hour documentary that tells the previously untold story of the many German Jewish professors who, expelled from their homeland by the Nazis, found new lives and careers at all-Black colleges and universities in the South. Through in-depth interviews with many of the surviving professors as well as their former students, From Swastika to Jim Crow uncovers a remarkable moment in American history and offers a fresh perspective on the complex history of race relations in America.

"From Swastika to Jim Crow uncovers a remarkable moment in American history and offers a fresh perspective on the complex history of race relations in America." -- Jewish Herald Voice

"The film finds nobility, honor and truth in the connections that were forged between students hungry for knowledge and teachers driven to impart their expertise and wisdom." -- Daily News Online 

Cost: Free and open to the public

Sponsors: The Duke Human Rights Center @ FHI, the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI), Humanities Writ Large, the Human Rights Archive at the Rubenstein Library, and the Center for Jewish Studies.