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Word: naacp (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cross & Flag diatribe against Jews and Catholics? Would President Conant tolerate a KKK meeting in the Yard? Would Mayor Hines let the Common be used for purposes of race assassination? Tolerance does not include tolerance of the intolerable, as you seem to believe. And as for the NAACP, it has well-earned its right to be intolerant: intolerant of regents who keep Negroes out of Southern colleges; intolerant of hanging judges in any region; intolerant of segregation in the Army and Navy; intolerant of any kind of injustice towards a great American minority. If the NAACP is intolerant enough...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DE GUSTIBUS | 5/5/1952 | See Source »

When they heard that the Boston Cinema Society was planning to show Birth of a Nation, members of the NAACP and the Equal Rights Society began addressing fervent protests to the City Censor and mumbling ominously about picket lines. Even though the film is a great cinema classic, it does present a rabidly Southern view of the Reconstruction era, and, after all, this would never...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Death of a Movie | 4/28/1952 | See Source »

...Faith to The American Way of Life. It is disappointing therefore to find that what was once a flexible concept, tolerance, has joined the censor's list of sacrosanct doctrines. We have no quibble with advocating tolerance, a trait which many Americans lack, but lately groups like the NAACP have shorn it of much of its richest meaning. Time was when tolerance meant permitting anyone to sample whatever was thrust before him, providing that this fare was not prejudicial to the rights and privileges that a democracy ensures everyone else. But now many people are defining it as merely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Death of a Movie | 4/28/1952 | See Source »

...argues a distasteful point, such as the glory of the Klan, it neither coerces moviegoers nor deprives them of any of their rights. The broader and narrower views of tolerance clash only when professional groups and public officials attempt unjustifiably to use one to crush the other, as the NAACP, the Equal Rights Society, and City Censor Milliken are doing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Death of a Movie | 4/28/1952 | See Source »

...long as those whom censorship harms remain unconcerned, this minority will grow bolder and more effective. And so long as pressure groups maintain the success they enjoy now, more and more organizations--formerly useful and respected parts of society like the NAACP--will go the way of the American Legion, using censorship as a tool to further their rigid doctrines...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Death of a Movie | 4/28/1952 | See Source »

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