South Carolina State is hosting an exhibit entitled "Beyond Swastika and Jim Crow:jewish Refugee Scholars at Black Colleges." The exhibit opens Friday.
ORANGEBURG, S.C. (AP) -- A new exhibition at South Carolina State University focuses on the little known link between Jewish scholars and black Southern universities during the Holocaust.
The exhibit opening Friday at the Orangeburg school is entitled "Beyond Swastika and Jim Crow: Jewish Refugee Scholars at Black Colleges."
It concerns the era in the 1930s and 1940s when Jewish scholars fled Nazi Germany but could not find employment at most colleges in the United States at the time because of anti-Semitism.
However, the Jewish scholars were welcomed by black colleges in the South.
The exhibit at the college's Stanback Museum and Planetarium focuses on overcoming the cultural and racial barriers between people.
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