Hearing is held on Birth of a Nation at City Hall.

Those opposed to the showing of the film testify at City Hall. They include William Monroe Trotter, who calls on Mayor James Michael Curley to ban “[The film] by a Southerner seeking to flout Boston and her Abolitionists.” After meeting with Trotter, Moorfield Storey, and Butler Wilson, and after attending a special screening at the Tremont Theatre on April 9, 1915, Curley allows the film to be shown after Griffith promises to cut some of the more controversial scenes.