Fighting a vicious film : protest against "the birth of a nation"

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Title:
Fighting a vicious film : protest against "the birth of a nation"
Description:
Concerns efforts by the Boston NAACP branch to ban the film "Birth of a Nation" due to its negative portrayal of black Americans. Includes a compilation of correspondence from citizens, clergy, and politicians, criticisms of the film by Francis Hackett, William Braithwate, Oswald Garrison Villard, Moorfield Storey, George Foster Peabody, Booker T. Washington, Edward T. Ware and others.
Creator:
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Boston Branch
Date:
1915
Format:
Documents
Genre:
Pamphlets
Location:
Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
Box 288 (shelf locator)
Collection (local):
W. E. B. Du Bois Papers
Series:
Series 22. Accretions
Subjects:
Dixon, Thomas--1864-1946--Birth of a nation (Motion picture)--Criticism and interpretation
Extent:
47 p.
Link to Item:
http://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums312-b288-i002
Terms of Use:
All rights for this document are held by the David Graham Du Bois Trust. Requests to publish, redistribute, or replicate this material should be addressed to Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries.
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Place of origin:
Boston (Mass.)
Language:
English
Identifier:
mums312-b288-i002