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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...
...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...
President Truman rushed a telegram asking that General Eisenhower place representatives in the State and Defense Departments "at the earliest possible moment." An Eisenhower aide indicated the General would select these representatives at once and get them to Washington...
...news that the University was going to convert the Harvard Union to a Freshman Commons hit the Harvard Clubs like a thunderbolt. Throughout the nation, old grads bestirred themselves from leather chairs to telegram protests to the Administration. "If the--whippersnappers have to socialize," wrote one member of the Class of '88, "let them go to Memorial Hall...
However, I am definitely not in sympathy with the stand which you have taken in the above-mentioned telegram. It seems to me not only over-dramatic but unwise to employ implied threats of "repercussions" and to place yourselves in the position of "censors". You have justly objected to the banning of pro-Negro films throughout the South, and it seems to me hypocritical in this case to object to a so-called anti-Negro film from being shown in the North, especially among a college-educated group. I say "so-called" because as long as I am prevented from...