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From:  Adrian Paul Botta < adrianpaulbotta@gmail.com > Date:  March 17, 2019 at 8:21:31 AM EDT To:  Rodney Rogers < rrogers@bgsu.edu >,  davidk@bgsu.edu ,  circulation@toledoblade.com ,   kprysybylski@toledoblade.com ,  roman.v.jackson@jpmorgan.com ,   julia.esposito@finnpartners. com ,  elizabeth.lrz@gmail.com Subject:   [EXTERNAL] Keep Gish name, respect American History! My name is Adrian Paul Botta, even if I'm more than ten thousand miles away, I'm very sad and frustrated after reading all that is happening at Bowling Green State University. I grew up as a poor kid behind the Iron Courtain in the seventies. First time I've had the chance to see Miss Lillian Gish was in a old Cinema Magazine and since then I'm in love with her memory, trying to find out facts from her prodigious career. So I read about her childhood in Springfield, Massillon, then Baltimore, her ascension and her ups, and downs known bein...

Lillian Gish photographed by Nell Dorr in the 30's, portrait property of Amon Carter Museum Forth Worth Texas, USA.

(BG Falcon Media) Wally Pretzer Mar 14, 2019 The Black Student Union at BGSU would like to see the Gish Film Theater name removed from the Student Union. These students should know that the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize has been awarded to several African Americans, including Spike Lee. In 1915, D.W. Griffith produced “The Birth of a Nation”, a racist movie that put the Ku Klux Klan in a favorable light. Lillian Gish played a nurse from the North caring for wounded soldiers. Because of her appearance in the film, the Black Students Union has implied that she is a racist; her sister, Dorothy, who was not in the film, is, by association with her sister, also, apparently, considered a racist. “The Birth of a Nation” has never been shown in the Gish Film Theater. President Rodney Rogers, assisted by the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Ray Craig, appointed a task force of students, faculty and other stakeholders to review the controversy to decide whether the name should ...

https://lilliangish1893.com/2019/03/14/the-birth-of-an-era/ The Birth of a Nation (David W. Griffith Corp., 1915). Herald

Lillian Gish cca 1930 Close-Up

American Academy of Dramatic Arts Honor New-York USA Cecil B Demille - 16 dec 1958

The Black Student Union at an Ohio university is pushing the school’s president to rename a theater honoring an actress who starred in “The Birth of a Nation,” Access link for more ...