 In 1915 the NAACP organized public education and protests in cities across the nation against D.W. Griffith's film "Birth of a Nation", a film that glamorized the Ku Klux Klan and shown in the Wilson White House as a personal favor to its author, a college roommate of President Wilson.Boston and a few other cities refused to allow the film to open.Black Americans and their allies worked hard to regain their ability to exercise the constitutional rights of citizens.