Dera:

Thanks for your message. I believe that the PBS webpage, a link to supplement the Museum of Jewish Heritage's exhibition mentions that Dr. Jocelyn Elders former Surgeon General of the Public Health Service also attended Philander Smith College.

If your parents or their student colleagues remember anything about the refugee professors, it would be an important addition to your family legacy. It's a WWII chapter that documents your parents' connection to an historical irony...Swastika and Jim Crow.

Please let us know your parents' reaction.

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