Luther J. Pollard

Luther J. Pollard (born January 4, 1878, died 1977) was an advertising executive and businessman in the film industry in Chicago.

[1] He was a boxer[1] and served in a "Colored" unit of the Union Army during the American Civil War.

[3] Luther's brother Frederick "Fritz" Douglass Pollard played football for Brown University,[1][4] worked for the studio, coached NFL football, and established the New York Independent News newspaper.

[4] Their sister, Naomi Pollard Dobson, was a teacher and librarian who in 1905 became the first Black woman to graduate from Northwestern University.

[5] His brother Fritz Pollard discussed their family and the discrimination they faced in a 1979 interview he gave at Brown University.