Youth Groups Meet. Indorse N. A. A. C. P. Protest on Joe Louis Movie Hours

ID: 546 ~ Source: "Youth Groups Meet. Indorse N. A. A. C. P. Protest on Joe Louis Movie Hours," Portsmouth Times (11 February 1938): 11. Historic Portsmouth Newspaper Collection, Center for Public History Archive, Shawnee State University, Portsmouth, Ohio. ~ Date: 11 February 1938

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Newspaper headline for the "mass meeting" held at Pleasant Green Baptist Church to protest the Westland Theater's segregated screening of Joe Louis's film, "Spirit of Youth."

This file appears in: Portsmouth NAACP Protests Jim Crow at the Westland Theater

Portsmouth NAACP Protests Jim Crow at the Westland Theater

By Andrew Feight, Ph.D.

Capitalizing on Joe Louis's new won fame, Hollywood movie director Harry L. Fraser would cast Louis to star in "The Spirit of Youth," which told the story of the boxer's rise from poverty and obscurity to world champion and Jazz Age celebrity life.…