Recollections of days of happy cooperation...too bad Obama/Farrakhan/Wright don't know about this.

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APRIL 24, 2009 By LUCETTE LAGNADO WSJ
When Jewish Scholars Fled to the South
European academics' exodus to small black colleges had lasting effects, an exhibit shows...
'Beyond Swastika and Jim Crow'
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...Friendships like these had a cost in the segregated South. One night in 1942, Prof. Rasmussen and her husband were arrested for dining with an African-American in a blacks-only cafe....artifacts, photographs, documents, and paintings are part of an exhibit...at the Museum of Jewish Heritage -- A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in New York's Battery Park City. The exhibit illuminates a period during and after World War II when scores of German-Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany found havens teaching in small black colleges throughout the South.... forged bonds that in many cases lasted long after the students had graduated and the professors had left the South for other posts."Even now, I can read almost any German scientific literature," says Dr. Joycelyn Elders, who served as surgeon general of the U.S. under President Bill Clinton...Several thousand German-Jewish scholars and academics fled Nazi Germany and Austria in the 1930s and 1940s,...distinguished backgrounds -- most notably Albert Einstein -- were hired by research institutes and prestigious schools such as Harvard and the New School....younger or less-established German-Jewish academics...black colleges offered them positions, they set about making homes for themselves in these schools,... "Beyond Swastika and Jim Crow: Jewish Refugee Scholars at Black Colleges," draws on a book of the same name published in 1993 by a German-Jewish refugee, Gabrielle Edgcomb...Some of the German-Jewish professors became active in the emerging civil-rights movement during the 1950s. ...In an oral history taken by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Prof. Borinski recalled telling students: "I am not from here, I am not even from America, but when I see the kinds of laws you have here I assure you it cannot last very long....I don't want you to accept any one of them."