An inspiring account of the experiences and activities of Jewish scholars, refuges from Nazism, who came to the U.S. and taught in traditional black colleges and universities in the segregated South. Interviews with John Hope Franklin, a few of the professors (notably Ernst Manasse, Professor of German, Latin and Philosophy from 1939-1973 at what was then called the North Carolina College for Negroes, now North Carolina Central University), their colleagues and especially their students. The film includes 1939 home movie scenes from Durham.