“One of the things I got from [Ernst] Borinski was that I could do anything I wanted to do, that I was a student comparable to any other student anywhere.”
While Jim Crow laws were forcing segregation upon African-Americans in the southern United States, Nazi Germany produced more than 400 pieces of legislation severely limiting the public and private lives of its Jewish populations. The 1935 Nuremberg Laws deprived Jews of their citizenship; two years before that, the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service ousted 2,000 German and Austrian academics, mostly Jews, from their teaching positions.
Through 4/6 DuSable Museum of African American History 740 E. Museum Pl.dusablemuseum.org $10
