From Swastika to Jim Crow (2000)

Directed by

Lori Cheatle, Martin D. Toub

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary compares the racial persecution under Nazism in Germany to the Jim Crow laws in the American South. It tells the story of Jewish scholars who were expelled from German universities and then found work at Southern colleges, where they connected with African-American students and colleagues facing discrimination.

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What happens

From Swastika to Jim Crow is a 2000 documentary that explores the similarities between Nazism in Germany (the Swastika) and racism in the American south (Jim Crow). In 1939, the Nazi government expelled Jewish scholars from German universities. Many of them found teaching positions in Southern universities, where they sympathized with the plight of their African-American colleagues and students. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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