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...NAACP group had refused the film, they could expect sympathies, since Robeson has proved himself a traitor to the good name of the American Negro. But the U.N. Council presents a particularly lame reason for chickening out of the Emperor. Its exhibition will make them a "partisan" organization, they say, and thus restrict their ability to get UN diplomats as speakers. Disregarding the patent observation that the film's content is as controversial as a baby chick, this argument assumes an incredibly naive view of the UN itself. There are, in fact, few institutions more controversial than the UN. Patriotic...
...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...
...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...