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- Los Angeles Times
D.W. Griffith stoked racism with 'Birth of a Nation.' A playwright imagines what happened next
After the deeply divisive reception of “The Birth of a Nation,” director D.W. Griffith released “Broken Blossoms,” in which a young, abused girl finds comfort in the company of a kind Chinese ...
17 hours ago
- The Des Moines Register via Yahoo
Historic front page from the Des Moines Register, May 1, 1916: Fight over KKK-focused film
Featured front page Des Moines' NAACP and Union Civil War veterans, along with some Catholic groups, join forces seeking to block the showing of D.W. Griffith's silent film "The Birth of a Nation ...
3 hours ago