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Broadway Integration Protests Stir Hollywood and Broadway
Hollywood faces a broad boycott threat as NAACP demands racial inclusion across film and TV. Stars like Brando Newman Heston and Davis push for integration while unions resist quotas citing contracts and fair employment laws. Broadway records integrated casts as actors’ groups push for more Negro roles and crew positions nationwide.
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Hollywood
Congress
Broadway
New York
Marion Brando
Patl Newman
Charlton Heston
Joanne Woodward
Steve Allen
Frank Sinatra
Anthony Franciosa
Burt Lancaster
Debbie Reynolds
Joan Crawford
Bette Davis
National Association For the
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Artists
Film Editors
NAACP
Labor Cos
California
Screen Actors Guild
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Association of Motion Picture Producers
Wet Brief
Foard Motor Co
Wiliam Dozier
Screen
Richard Jenks
Alliance of Television Film Producers
Congressional
Times
Congress of Racial Equality
Committee For
Actors Equity
Frederick O'Neal
Equity
Sidney Poitier
Diahann Carroll
Hilde Simms
House
Adam Clayton Powell
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