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ARREST NEGROES AT
/BIRTH OF A RATION'
Police Beserves Called When
Three Women and Two
Men Protest.
An attempt to conduct a demonstra
tion against the production of "The Birth
of a Nation" at the Capitol Theatre last
night led to the arrest of three women ;
and two men, negroes, and the gathering
of a crowd that required police reserves
to handle. Dressed In Y. W. C. A. war
service uniforms the three women, Mrs.
Helen Curtis, widow of James C. Curtis,
who was United States Minister to Li
beria; Mrs. Laura J. Rollock n* "S3
Cumberland street, Brooklyn, and .? ss
Catherine M. Johnson, 58 St. Felix
street, Brooklyn, carried placards read- I
lng:
**We Represented America In France.
Why Should The Birth of a Nation '
Misrepresent Us Here?*"
They inarched up and down the side
walk. and with the men, Edwin F.
Frailer of 3362 Seventh avenue, and
Llewellyn Rollock of 383 Cumberland
street, brother-in-law of Mrs. Rollock,
passed out circulars containing state
ments that "The Birth of a Nation" was
dangerous as propaganda In favor of
Ku Klux Klan organisations.
Patrolmen Lavery and Harty, who
stopped the marchers, charged them with
obstructing the sidewalk and refusing
to move on. Walter F. White, secretary
of the National Association for the Ad
vancement ef Colored People, accom
panied the party, but was not arrested.
He said protests against the picture had
been made to the city officials, who had
deollned to act
When the five prisoners were ar
raigned before Magistrate Douras In the
Night Court the case was adjourned.
