Chicago film censor Beatrice McGill dies. (obituary) (Brief Article)

From: Jet | Date: January 18, 1993 | Copyright information

Beatrice McGill, the first Black to become a film censor in Chicago, died recently in Chicago Osteopathic Medical Center. She was 92.

Mrs. McGill, a South Side resident, was appointed to the Chicago Police Department's five-member Film Censor Board in 1946, and for 37 years she censored numerous movies. She once said she never was for shielding adults from whatever they wanted to see, but "the ...

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