White Supremacist Posters Reported on Emerson College Campus

BOSTON, MA — Numerous posters from a white supremacist group have been found around the Emerson College campus, according to a message from the private school's president, Lee Pelton.

In a letter shared on social media and subsequently published in part by The Boston Globe, Pelton said that seven posters were placed in various campus buildings, apparently by the group American Vanguard.

Wrote Pelton:

"It goes without saying that the racist and anti-Semitic rhetoric of American Vanguard has no place on our campus as a community that cherishes the diversity of ideas and people acting together in shared interests as a sustaining core value."

"The posters were not put here to propagandize but rather to intimidate and silence. However, we will not be silenced. We will raise our strong voices of protest and our unassailable belief in the enduring power of our common humanity."

According to reports cited by the Globe, similar posters have recently been found at other universities around the country, including Purdue and the University of Central Florida.

Emerson College is a small, private institution with programs focused on communications and the performing arts. It's campus is clustered around the Boston Common, mostly along Tremont and Boylston streets.

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