Block Booking

National Civic Groups Protest Block Booking

October 1934

Coalition of thirty-five groups at a conference called by former First Lady Grace Goodhue Coolidge:

1. Adult Education Association
2. American Association of University Women
3. American Jewish Congress
4. The American Legion
5. The American Museum of Natural History
6. Big Brother and Big Sister Foundation, Inc.
7. Boy Scouts of America
8. B'nai B'rith
9. Catholic Boys Brigade of the United States
10. Catholic Daughters of America
11. Child Welfare League of America, Inc.
12. Federal Council of Churches
13. Federal Motion Picture Council
14. General Federation of Women's Clubs, Birl Scouts, Inc.
15. Institute of Geographical Exploration
16. International Association of Lions Clubs
17. International Dental Health Foundation
18. International Federation of Catholic Alumnae
19. Mayland Civic League for Motion Pictures
20. Massachusetts Civic League
21. National Association of Junior Leagues of America
22. National Congress of Parents and Teachers
23. National Council of teachers of English
24. National Council of Women of the United States
25. National Council of Jewish Women
26. National Council of Y. M. C. A. of the United States
27. National Education Association
28. National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs
29. National Probation Association
30. National Women's Trade Union League of America
31. Russell Sage Foundation
32. Southern Women's Education Alliance
33. Women's League of the United Synagogues
34. National Board of the Y. W. C. A. 
35. The Motion Picture Research Council.

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SOURCES:

"35 Groups To Fight Blind Film Booking," NYT, October 5, 1934, p. 29.

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