How was the film received in the south?

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It was probably ever shown here at all---from what I've read about film with any kind of interracial pairing back those days, they would almost never get shown in the South for the simple reason that anything showing black and white folks doing anything together was banned. I read in a book about film censorship that an innocuous film merely showing black and white kids sitting together in a classroom was not only forbidden to be shown in Southern theatres, but there was even a court case over whether it went against the racist Jim Crow laws to show it. Also, when movies that had a musical interlude featuring black dancers/singers played down South, that musical interlude would be cut from the film before it ever reached the theatres. Kind of crazy now to think that barely 50 years ago, people actually did that s***, but you still have fools in this day & age who still believe that white people don't want to see films with black people in it, even though the major box office successes of both RED TAILS and THINK LIKE A MAN prove that this assumption is just some plain old prejudiced bulls*** on the part of movie distributors.