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Good Friday Message : Shall We Take Our Turn at Murder? : [poster]

Good Friday Message : Shall We Take Our Turn at Murder? : [poster]

Item consists of a broadside produced by The Protestant (chaired by Kenneth Leslie) sometime in the mid-1940s, with the header "Good Friday Message" "Shall we take our turn at murder?" Item relates to anti-Semitic language and fascist activities affecting American (and Church) policy and opinion as it relates to efforts to establish a Jewish territory in Palestine.
Open Letter to the Missouri Knights of Columbus : [poster]

Open Letter to the Missouri Knights of Columbus : [poster]

Item consists of an illustrated broadside produced by The Protestant (edited by Kenneth Leslie), as it appeared in the Sunday, April 7, 1946 edition of The New York Times, containing a lengthy letter written by Leslie in response to anti-Soviet and pro-Franco Spanish statements from the Missouri Knights of Columbus Catholic fraternal society.
Good Friday Message from the Ministerial Action Committee of The Protestant : [poster]

Good Friday Message from the Ministerial Action Committee of The Protestant : [poster]

Item consists of a broadside produced by the Ministerial Action Committee of The Protestant (chaired by Kenneth Leslie and Chester Hodgson), as appeared in print on Wednesday, April 2, 1947, stating that "we cannot permit the Cross of Christ to be used as a bludgeon in the hands of those who would use the Jews, or any other religious or racial group, as scapegoats in their thrust for Fascist power over America".

Promotional materials for poetry readings

File contains two undated promotional leaflets (likely from the late 1930s or early 1940s, promoting Kenneth Leslie poetry readings and discussions. The earliest of the two leaflets, on off-white paper, is entitled "Kenneth Leslie / Poetry Readings -- Discussions / Mr. Leslie / Reads His Own Poetry / Discusses Contemporary Poetry / Helps you Develop Your Poetry" and contains a small portrait of a youthful Leslie wearing a fedora. It contains testimonials from Charles G.D. Roberts, Robert Norwood, and Lawrence H. Conrad on the verso. The second leaflet, printed on yellow paper, also undated, but after 1938, is entitled "Kenneth Leslie : Singer-Composer / Poet", contains a portrait of Leslie to the upper left corner, with a short bibliography (ending in "By Stubborn Stars". The front contains words promoting Leslie's talent from 'Voices', 'London Times', Sir Charles Roberts, 'N.Y. Herald Tribune', 'Halifax Chronicle', Reverend Sister Maura, 'Charlottetown Guardian', and Shaemas O'Sheel, while the verso has further testimonials under the heading "What they say of Kenneth Leslie's poetry...." with the sub-headings "In London, England", "In Toronto", "In New York", and "In Charlottetown".
Smash Anti-Semitism and save this continent from Fascism : [poster]

Smash Anti-Semitism and save this continent from Fascism : [poster]

Item consists of a full-page newsprint broadside commissioned by the Textbook Commission to Eliminate Anti-Semitic Statements in American Textbooks (chaired by Kenneth Leslie of The Protestant), as it appeared in The Stoneham, Massachusetts "Independent" on February 11, 1944. Item contains the header "Smash Anti-Semitism and save this continent from Fascism", includes a passage of a Kenneth Leslie speech, a letter submitted by Boston minister Rev. W. Ellis Davies, a "Pledge" signed by '2,863 ordained Christian ministers' to eliminate the 'cowardly propaganda of anti-Semitism" from textbooks, as well as contact information for the Textbook Commission.
1600 Protestant Ministers Defend Separation of Church and State : [poster]

1600 Protestant Ministers Defend Separation of Church and State : [poster]

Item consists of a broadside produced by The Protestant (chaired by Kenneth Leslie), likely in early 1945, titled "1600 Protestant Ministers Defend Separation of Church and State". Item includes facsimiles of articles from the New York Herald Tribune and New York Times (from February 1945), as well as a letter from Kenneth Leslie to Archbishop Francis J. Spellman, demanding opposition to "any attempt under whatever formula to involve the free democratic states in any deal in which the Vatican State or its representatives, or the representatives of any Protestant or Jewish establishment of religion, has part or place, either as principal or mediator" and other "disservice[s] to the country".
1613 Christian Ministers Demand an All-Out Anti-Fascist Peace : [poster]

1613 Christian Ministers Demand an All-Out Anti-Fascist Peace : [poster]

Item consists of a broadside produced by The Protestant (edited by Kenneth Leslie), as it appeared in the February 13, 1945 edition of the New York Post, containing a declaration from Leslie and the editorship directed to Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin, urging resistance against what Leslie deems the anti-Semitic influence of a "overtly political" Papacy.