Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College and the Center for Creative Partnerships will present its Community Cinema social justice film series via Zoom this spring. SC Humanities supported this programming with a Mini Grant.
Kicking off the two-part series will be “From Swastika to Jim Crow: Jewish Scholars in Black Colleges,” which tells the little-known story of two oppressed cultures coming together through education and the desire for social justice. In the 1930s, Jewish professors were expelled from prestigious universities in Nazi Germany and were able to emigrate to the U.S. Confronted with anti-Semitism at American universities, they were welcomed by black colleges in the segregated South, where they developed lasting relationships with their students, finding new meaning and purpose in the civil rights movement.
“From Swastika to Jim Crow” will be shown at 12 p.m. and 7 p.m. Monday and Tuesday, April 26 and 27, via Zoom. John Whittington Franklin, whose father John Hope Franklin is featured in the film, will join us for a conversation on Zoom at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 29.
In “After Selma,” the second film in the series, Emmy-winning filmmaker and author Loki Mulholland, civil rights veteran JoAnne Bland and New York Times best-selling author Carol Anderson dive into the history of voter suppression and the need to challenge it in order to preserve democracy and equality for all.
“After Selma” will be shown at 12 p.m. and 7 p.m. Monday and Tuesday, May 10 and 11, via Zoom. Bland, co-founder and former director of the National Voting Rights Museum in Selma, Ala., and Mulholland, activist and son of civil rights icon Joan Trumpauer Mulholland, will join us for a conversation on Zoom at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 13.
Moderator for both events will be Ellen Zisholtz, CCP president.
The film screenings and community discussions are free, but registration is required. To register, visit https://bit.ly/32aOY1l or email centerforcreativepartnerships@gmail.com.
The mission of SC Humanities is to enrich the cultural and intellectual lives of all South Carolinians. Established in 1973, this 501(c) 3 organization is governed by a volunteer 21-member Board of Directors comprised of community leaders from throughout the state. It presents and/or supports literary initiatives, lectures, exhibits, festivals, publications, oral history projects, videos and other humanities-based experiences that directly or indirectly reach more than 250,000 citizens annually.
The social justice film series is dedicated to John Hope Franklin, an American historian and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom best known for his work “From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African-Americans,” first published in 1947.
The mission of SC Humanities is to enrich the cultural and intellectual lives of all South Carolinians. Established in 1973, this 501(c) 3 organization is governed by a volunteer 21-member Board of Directors comprised of community leaders from throughout the state. It presents and/or supports literary initiatives, lectures, exhibits, festivals, publications, oral history projects, videos and other humanities-based experiences that directly or indirectly reach more than 250,000 citizens annually.
