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. ~ 1 Tomy Browo's ..—COMMENTS-. * vl • ‘ ew Slavery! time were internal battles. Villard be came incensed because of a perceived inability of blacks to work together. For the next few years, the NAACP intensified Its efforts against a “social orgy of cruelty” by declaring war against lynching. For the two year period of 1913-14, “The Crisis” maga xine reported 154 lynching*. But, with ailing funds, organizational problems . and little notoriety, the Association was less than effective. However, obscurity would cease to be one of its problems in 1915. A vicious “anti-Negro film” was the term used by the Los Angeles branch to describe D. W. Griffith’s “The Birth of a Nation.” This 199S film adaptation of Thomas Dixon’s novel, “The Clansman,” glorified the Ku Klux Klan and portrayed the newly emancipated African as a lecherous, subhuman brute who would bring the South down to Us inferior level. In the film, the black leaders of Re construction were shown as idiotic and uncouth clown*. In one scene, a beautiful white woman jumps to her death to escape a lust-filled Negro’s attempt to Si raP® ***■• In other scenes, the night riders of the Ku Klux Klan are por trayed as saviors of white womanhood gy *nrfif South, never as the terrorist _ityjPprotest meetings and picket lines were organized around the coimtry. The NAACP had launched its £‘ v'' impactful protest to , iful in getting certain I in a few cities, the NAACP > to get the film banned. But __ J important factor did come out of this effort: the NAACP was now nationally recognized as a formidable foe against social injustice to blacks. - Despite this cinematic setback, 1915 proved to be a year of triumphs for the Association and the black struggle. In an effort to foster racial pride, Joel E. Spingarn created a gold medal award to be issued annually for “the highest and noblest achievement of an American Negro.” The Spingard Medal was first awarded to Dr. Ernest Just of Howard University for his research in Biology in February, 1915. By i91A, the Afro-American population was again held hostage to the terror lynching. The decade before ihe turn of the century - The Terrible Nineties • the South averaged nearly 190 lynching! a year. The barbaric rites of lynch mobs were an almost everyday occurrence Next Week: The NAACP* crusade • against lynching. . “Tesy Brown’s Jemal" TV series caa be seen oa public television Sunday on WTYI, Channel 42. at 5 p.m. It canals* be seen on Channel 58 Sundays at 8:3* and Channel 98 Thursdays at 18:18 p.m. Please consalt listings. iMW vr to report a missing paper, ^delivery service, to start weekly home delivery, etc. j|/eo© THE OPENING OF QUEEN CITY TIRE & WHEZL "Home otthe Red Carpet Treatment!” Conveniently Located at 1200 South Try on at E. Independence OPEN Mon.-Frl. 7:30 A.M.-6:30P.M. n.tkyo* so t*yo* Sat. 8A.M.-5P.M. |-I I I - ★ DROP-OFF SERVICE -»-L- ' Mon.-Frl.A.M. Just leave your car with us and we will take you I to work (Downtown Charlotte only) •I • I I J . . ★ FULL AUTO I TRUCK SERVICE AVAILABLE ' | Car & Truck Alignments are our Specialty! Brakes ★ Shocks ★ Tune-Ups ★ BodyWork Call us for Competitive prices I and the Red Carpet Treatment! 377-3333 1 _ I
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