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| Creator: | American Nationalist |
| Title: | Joan Fontaine and her Negro Screen Lover |
| Date: | 1957 |
| Description: | Black-and-white flyer from 1957 published by American Nationalist, a white supremacist, anti-integration group based in California. The flyer warns that the upcoming movie, Island in the Sun, favorably shows two interracial relationships, one between Joan Fontaine and Harry Belafonte. The flyer encourages boycotting the film, movies produced by Daryl Zanuck or 20th Century Fox, and music by Harry Belafonte. It also recommends insisting that local theaters refuse to show the film and distributing copies of the flyer in the community. The University of Tennessee Libraries (Knoxville, Tennessee) is the digital publisher. The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. |
| Types: | Flyers |
| Subjects: | Belafonte, Harry, 1927- | Fontaine, Joan, 1917- | United States--Race relations | Race relations | Race discrimination | Racism--United States | African Americans | African American actors | Actresses--United States | White supremacy movements--United States | Motion picture industry--United States | California | United States |
| Collection: | Edmund Orgill Papers |
| Institution: | Memphis Public Library's Memphis and Shelby County Room |
| Contributors: | Memphis Public Library. Memphis and Shelby County Room | Volunteer Voices (Project) |
| Online Publisher: | Knoxville, Tenn. : Volunteer Voices in association with the Memphis Public Library | 2008-01-28 |
| Original Material: | Edmund Orgill Papers, Ms. 87, Memphis Public Library, Memphis, Tennessee |
| Rights and Usage: | For current rights information, please visit: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200600000001200 |
| Persistent Link to Item: | http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000003311 |
