That same year also saw All God's Chillun Got Wings, a groundbreaking exploration of interracial relations that provoked hate mail and bomb threats.
But NOM is a relative latecomer to the export business when it comes to promoting and provoking hate abroad.
Several American commentators have expressed their bewilderment at how an apparently mild email encouraging students to think, debate and not to overreact could be enough to provoke a hate mob.
A sort of Harry Potter meets Woody Allen, his dishevelled shock of curly black hair, round plastic glasses and navy woollen jumper suggest an affable academic rather than the sort of man to provoke postbags of hate mail.
It is always bracing to find a pop pretender who can talk a good fight, better still when the records he makes look set to provoke love and hate in equal measure.
He revolutionized the concept of the book by detaching it from its purely literary conventions and concentrating on the ways in which books provoke love and hate in the social milieu by their very existence.
Adding fuel to the fire has been the media's role in provoking and promoting hate speech, which Saady describes as "crimes against ethics".
While those whom Hillary Clinton likes and respects are unlikely ever to feel her disdain, even her close friends concede that she has a temper they would hate to provoke.
They carried their own signs reading "Love not Hate," and "Provoke Peace" at their "Love Rally".
