Demonstration against Birth of a Nation is held.

Some 5,000 people, most of them African-American, march from Boston Common to the State House to protest the showing of the film in Boston. Gov. David Walsh attempts to prosecute the theater owner under a 1910 statute against the showing of immoral films, but Judge Thomas H. Dowd finds the film is not immoral on April 21, 1915 and allows it to continue to be screened with minor cuts to the most offensive scenes. The protest prompts establishment of a censorship board in June 1915,* but the board allows the film to continue to be screened for more than six months at various theaters. But a subsequent attempt to screen the film in Boston is defeated in 1921.*