Portsmouth Theatre Tries Jim-Crowism on Louis Picture

ID: 772 ~ Source: "Portsmouth Theatre Tries Jim-Crowism on Louis Picture," Cleveland Call & Post (17 February 1938).

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Headline about Westland Theater controversy in the Cleveland Call & Post (17 February 1938).

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

Portsmouth NAACP Protests Jim Crow at the Westland Theater

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