Word: naacp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boston NAACP, which had banned the film in the past, did not protest the showing on orders from president Lionel Lindsay. Afterwards, however, the group's executive board reversed Lindsay's dictum and protested the exhibition to President Conant. It was the film's first public exhibition in the Boston area since 1916, when it caused bloody riots at midtown theatres...
Although the Boston NAACP in a telegram to President Conant, protested the showing, and several students advised the City of Cambridge to ban the film, the show went on twice on both Monday and Tuesday nights...
...their protest, the Boston NAACP executive board reversed an earlier decision of their president, Lionel Lindsey...
...brought to my attention that the movie "Birth of a Nation" was not shown at Harvard last Friday as scheduled due to pressure from the Boston Branch NAACP. A telegram dated May 2, 1948, was displayed as evidence of the pressure exerted by the association...
...true that we have in the past protested the public showing of this film. However, for the record, I wish to state that the NAACP had no knowledge that the "Birth of a Nation" was scheduled to be shown at Harvard October 31, 1952, and no protest was made by the association at this time...