Mary Childs Nerney

Mary Childs Nerney was the Executive Secretary of the NAACP from 1912 to 1916.[1] She was white, and often lost patience with the African-American people she was seeking to help.[2]

She offered W.E.B. DuBois the chance to lead the campaign to ban The Birth of a Nation (1915), but he refused.[3] Because of the lack of success in NAACP's actions to ban The Birth of a Nation, on April 17, 1915, Nerney wrote to NAACP Executive Committee member George Packard: "I am utterly disgusted with the situation in regard to The Birth of a Nation ... kindly remember that we have put six weeks of constant effort of this thing and have gotten nowhere."[4]

References

  1. ↑ The Crisis Publishing Company, Inc. (1999). The Crisis. The Crisis Publishing Company, Inc. pp. 77–. ISSN 0011-1422.
  2. ↑ Larry Eugene Jones (2001). Crossing Boundaries: The Exclusion and Inclusion of Minorities in Germany and the United States. Berghahn Books. pp. 198–. ISBN 978-1-57181-306-0.
  3. ↑ Reconstruction in the Mind of W.E.B. Du Bois: Myth, Memory, and the Meaning of American Democracy. ProQuest. 2008. pp. 237–. ISBN 978-0-549-77584-3.
  4. ↑ Nerney, Mary Childs. "An NAACP Official Calls for Censorship of The Birth of a Nation". History Matters. Retrieved 9 May 2015.

Further reading

Sullivan, Patricia (2009). "Welding the Hammers". Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement. New York: The New Press. ISBN 9781595585110. 

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