Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President of the Massachusetts Bar Association, Samuel P. Sears '17, revealed yesterday that he had attempted to start a protest fund drive to aid in the election of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy...
...their protest, the Boston NAACP executive board reversed an earlier decision of their president, Lionel Lindsey...
Were there the slightest possibility of the production arousing riots and violence, we would not protest a ban. After all, the most cherished liberties are not so sacrosanct that governments cannot limit them in the public safety. But this will not be the case at New Lecture Hall. The only group prone to organize a protest in the past, the Boston NAACP, learned that printed warnings distributed to students beforehand seem to nip supposed prejudicial reaction in the bud. The NAACP, in fact, proposes to question the members of today's audience on their reaction, to see whether their hunch...
Although the president of the Boston NAACP said he "would not protest" the HLU-HSMR showing of the controversial film, the City of Cambridge postponed decision on granting a license to the groups because "two or three" calls of protest had come into City Hall. John Harrington, head of the licensing bureau, said yesterday, "the only thing the city is worried about is an outbreak of violence, and if the police can be satisfied none will occur, the license will be granted." It was Harrington who held up the Boston Film Society's permit to show the film last week...
Watson said he "had raised a strong protest" against Crocker's showing of "Birth of a Nation" when he learned Crocker had substituted the film in his program at the last minute...