In 1915 all of Boston's Black institutions, agencies, and community leaders united to protest the showing of the film, 'Birth of a Nation,' at the Tremont Theater because the film portrayed southern Blacks as depraved and glorified the Ku Klux Klan. Despite the collective protest, the city allowed the film to complete its scheduled run through the summer. Six years later when the film was scheduled for a rerun at the Shubert Theatre, William Monroe Trotter and the Boston NAACP forced the banning of the film with some 600 members of Boston's Black community attending the hearing on the film.