Brownsville Black and White

New York Jewish Film Festival

Film

Sunday, January 20, 2002
4:15 – 5:45 pm

This documentary follows 60 years of Black/Jewish relations in Brownsville, Brooklyn -- known first as a racially integrated community unified by shared liberal politics, and then as the setting of a watershed schism between blacks and Jews in the late 1960s.  Brownsville residents and former residents provide eloquent testimony to the changes the neighborhood has seen.