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“Beyond Swastika and Jim Crow:  The Jewish Refugee Scholars at Black Colleges”

Date and Time: Sat, Feb 25, 9:00 am

Traveling show from Museum of Jewish History in NYC Presented by Tougaloo College and the Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life “Discover the little known story of Jewish professors who fled Nazism and came to America in the 1930s and 1940s, finding teaching positions at historically black colleges and universities in the South. Explore the encounter between these scholars and their students, and their impact on each other, on the Civil Rights Movement, and on American Society.” Gallery / Bennie G. Thompson Academic and Civil Rights Research Center.

Price: $5, college students with ID and children free

Contact Phone: 601-977-7213

Location: Tougaloo College

URL: http://www.tougaloo.edu

filed under: Exhibits and Openings.


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