Word: anti-negro
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...Protest, Sit-In." Southern Negro college students particularly are fed up with the slow, legalistic approach of the N.A.A.C.P. A segregation law is often declared invalid in the courtroom, after patient argument by the N.A.A.C.P., only to remain in force in practice. To fight segregation in their own way, young Negroes have organized themselves into a federation called the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ("Snick'' for short). Snick is led by a Chicagoan, James Forman, 33. It provides the shock troops of the civil rights front, organizes sit-ins, holds demonstrations and boycotts anti-Negro stores...
Furthermore, it will be seen mainly by Harvard audience, students who supposedly will be able to draw their own conclusions and not be propagandized by the anti-Negro plot...
Objections to the film have historically been based on its anti-Negro attitude. Birth of a Nation is sympathetic to the South, and glorifies the activities of the Ku Klux Klan...
...NAACP and other Negro groups vigorously protested exhibition of to film, even though it was presented as an example of anti-Negro propaganda and the proceeds were donated for Negro schools...
Prizer said yesterday that he scheduled Birth of a Nation during the summer without ever seeing it, and that he was unaware of its anti-Negro bias at the time. He said he selected the film because it is one of the most talked about of all motion pictures, and because its technical innovations are still used today...