Actors wearing Ku Klux Klan regalia chase down a white actor in blackface in The Birth of a Nation. Hulton Archive/Getty Images hide caption ...

A rising wave of racist violence in the South prompted President Ulysses S. Grant to legal and military action against the Ku ...

Ad Policy. The front page of the Palo Alto Times of May 31, 1946. “Rumor is abroad on the Stanford campus to the effect that a unit of the Ku Klux Klan is in process of formation here.

This scene from D.W. Griffith's 1915 “Birth of a Nation” romanticizes the Ku Klux Klan and illustrates racism in the United States during the film's time period (Video: David W. Griffith Corp ...

A hundred years ago, on February 8, 1915, D. W. Griffith released “The Birth of a Nation.” The movie became the fledgling film industry’s first blockbuster. It ran for over three hours at a ...

At noon on a Friday, two men in the robes of the Ku Klux Klan rode their horses down Pittsfield’s North Street. The date was Jan. 7, 1916, and they were heralding the debut of D.W. Griffith’s film ...

New ‘Birth of a Nation’ Posters Recall D.W. Griffith KKK Propaganda Film. Griffith's 1915 silent film is now considered KKK propaganda. ... while the Ku Klux Klan is shown as heroic. ...

As a young journalist in the late 1970s, Lehr infiltrated the local Knights of the Ku Klux Klan for a story. He met their leader at the time, David Duke, who was there to recruit the next wave of ...

What do President Donald Trump, former President Barack Obama, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and New York City's ...

Thomas Dixon Jr.’s 1905 book, The Clansman, idealized the K.K.K. as a righteous crusade led by noble men, and D. W. Griffith immortalized the book in 1914 with his film, The Birth of a Nation.

An excerpt from "Ku Klux Klan: ... from 1965 that traces the history of the Ku Klux Klan including its 1915 resurgence inspired by the silent film Birth of a Nation, ...