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John Lowry, whose talk was sponsored by the Harvard Students for a Democratic Society, made the statement in defense of the policy of "meeting violence with violence advocated by the Monroe NAACP president, Robert F. Williams...
...emphasized, however, that the basic pattern of protest must be one of non-violence. Because of misunderstandings about the meaning of his statement, Lowry added, Williams has met with resistence from other integration leaders and has been suspended from his NAACP post...
...Boston chapter of the NAACP will not officially protest the Ivy Films' showing of the movie Birth of a Nation, though it cannot actually give its approval. This is in contrast to the organization's demonstrations against the 1952 ban of the film...
...NAACP will not picket the movie this time because it has concluded that the movie is being given by the film study group only as part of a series to show technical improvements and the film's impact on the cinema industry...
Prizer approached the NAACP early in August in an attempt to head off controversy and to give his reasons for presenting the film...