Question
The editor of this newspaper managed to convince Mayor James M. Curley to shut down productions of The Clansman, but was unable to halt the premiere of Birth of a Nation at the Tremont Theatre a decade later. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this militant Black newspaper that operated out of the former home of The Liberator. An editor of this newspaper was arrested after verbally sparring with Booker T. Washington during a chaotic 1903 speech.
ANSWER: The Boston Guardian [accept The Guardian] (Washington’s 1903 speech to the Boston branch of the National Negro Business League devolved into the chaotic, but peaceful, “Boston Riot.”)
[10e] The Boston Guardian editor William Monroe Trotter attempted to ban Birth of a Nation along with this civil rights group co-founded by W. E. B. Du Bois (“dew BOYS”).
ANSWER: NAACP [or National Association for the Advancement of Colored People]
[10m] A Black member of this family co-founded The Guardian. Two sisters from this family became well-known abolitionists and embarked on speaking tours in the Northeast.
ANSWER: Grimké family [accept Grimké sisters, Sarah Moore Grimké, Angelina Emily Grimké, or Archibald Grimké]
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