The National Negro Congress protested the screening of Gone With the Wind at the Lincoln Theatre, 1940.

ID: 4259 ~ Source: Scurlock Studio Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Protest - National Negro Congress, Demanding Change Through Direct Action

The National Negro Congress protested the screening of Gone With the Wind at the Lincoln Theatre, 1940.

This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Protest - National Negro Congress, Demanding Change Through Direct Action

Civil Rights Tour: Protest - National Negro Congress, Demanding Change Through Direct Action

During a campaign to exonerate the Scottsboro Boys—a group of imprisoned Black Alabama youth in danger of being lynched—the local chapter of the National Negro Congress (NNC) held its first mass meeting in DC at Metropolitan Baptist Church (then at…