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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A black woman watches as robed Ku Klux Klansmen walk in downtown Montgomery, Ala., prior to a cross burning rally that night on Nov. 24, 1956. The July 9 Retropolis column "How 'The Birth of a ...

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

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. ...

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.

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

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, ...

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.

The Birth of a Nation is a 1915 American historical drama film adapted from the 1905 novel and play the Clansman, ... and inspired the creation of the second Ku Klux Klan. Since its release, film ...