Picketing at Lisner Auditorium, 1946

ID: 4388 ~ Source: Star Collection, DC Public Library; © The Washington Post
This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Protest - National Theatre Goes Dark
Picketing at Lisner Auditorium, 1946
This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Protest - National Theatre Goes Dark

In 1946, thirteen years after The Green Pastures played to a whites-only audience at the National Theatre, segregation was still the norm. But when a New York play starring Ingrid Bergman was booked at the Lisner Auditorium and Bergman and the…