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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Apr 26, 1915

Page

2

Patterson Attacks Film and Novel In Everett Rally

Ex Governor Malcolm R Patterson denounces Uncle Tom's Cabin The Clansman and The Birth of a Nation as injustices to the negro race urging stoppage of the latter. He spoke at Everett First Universalist Church and elsewhere pledging to end the liquor traffic.

Malcolm R. Patterson Tennessee First Universalist Church Everett Boston James Chambers Thomas J. Boynton Patterson Congregational Church Concord First Baptist Church Brookline Mr. Patterson

Protest Meeting Attended by 2000 Against Birth of a Nation

About two thousand colored residents packed the Columbus Avenue Zion Church and its vestries in Boston to protest the Tremont Theatre screening of The Birth of a Nation. Speakers including Rev. M. A. N. Shaw and Rev. A. W. Puller urged race unity and laws to curb prejudice. Resolutions denounced police conduct at Tremont Theatre and called for halting screenings deemed to infringe public rights. event organized by the National Independent Rights League.

Columbus Avenue Zion Tremont Theatre Walsh Curley M. A. N. Shaw Shawmut Avenue Baptist Church Wendell Phillips Charles Sumner William Lloyd Garrison Boston Massachusetts Herbert S. Johnson Warren Avenue National Independent Rights League Emery T. Morris B.S. Swain State House Samuel A. Brown Walter D. McLain T. BE. Rubin D. O. Walker Sherwin I. Cook William D. Brigham George T. Datty George L. Cady Dorchester Pilgrim Congregational Church William H. Lewis United States Attorney-General Oswald G. Villard New York National Association ‘For the Advancement of the Colored People Benjamin W. Swain Columbus Avenue A. M. E. Zion Powhattan Bagnall Parker Memorial

Controversial Photo-Play Draws Boston Color Line Protest

In Cambridge at the church near Harvard square yesterday afternoon a large audience of hundreds of Greater Boston colored people attended as speakers called the photo-play anarchistic un American and a perversion of history. The implication of insult to the colored race was stressed by the speakers and crowd.

Harvard Square Cambridge Boston New England Sumner Emerson Crothers Eliot Dr. Eliot Dr. Crothers

Harvard Aged Leader Voices Protest On Film

Dr. Charles W. Eliot former Harvard president spoke out against the film stating that Northerners resent being accused of abandoning the forty fourth amendment. Dr. Samuel M. Crothers pastor of First Parish Church said the expurgated film promotes anarchistic propaganda.

Charles W. Eliot Harvard The North Samuel M. Crothers First Parish

Boston meeting denounces photoplay on race as propaganda

At a meeting in Boston leaders including Rev. George Cady and William H. Lewis condemned a film alleged to distort Reconstruction and promote anti Negro sentiment. They warned it aims to undermine civil rights and inspire lynching while urging law and public officials to curb such depictions.

Essex County C. T. A. Holds Annual Meeting

The Essex County Catholic Total Abstinence Society met at St. Joseph's C. T. A. Hall in Lynn for its annual gathering. Officers elected include William J. Carlin of Peabody as president James A. Kelliher of Beverly as first vice president Miss Abagail Reardon of Lynn as second vice president William H. Cochrane of Lynn as recording secretary Miss Sarah Tracey of Lawrence as corresponding secretary and Thomas P. Flynn of Beverly as treasurer.

Essex County Catholic Total Abstinence Society St. Joseph’s C. T. A. Hall Lynn William J. Carlin Peabody James A. Kelliher Beverly Abagail Reardon William H. Cochrane Sarah Tracey Lawrence Thomas P. Flynn

Somerville Girls Discover Fire at Leather Goods Firm

Mona Legre and Carrie Jones, 12 year old Somerville girls, found a fire in the Horton Hubbard building at 35 Myrtle Street Somerville last night. The blaze damaged the office area due to suspected defective wiring and caused about 100 dollars in damage.

Mona Legre Carrie Jones Somerville Myrtle Street Horton & Hubbard

Ridgeways Celebrate 50 Years of Marriage at Home

Mr and Mrs Charles L Ridgeway of 760 Shirley Street Winthrop marked their golden wedding anniversary yesterday with a large gathering of relatives and friends at their residence.

Charles L. Ridgeway Shirley Street Winthrop

Woman Shares Renova Cure For Intemperance

Mrs Bowman of Watertown claims Renova helped her husband stay sober. The ad urges readers to obtain pamphlets and a free sample to test Renova’s effects, describing tasteless add to beverages and covert administration as a cure for intemperance.

Riker-Jaynes Renova Renova Co Station N New York

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