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

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 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 ...

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.

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 ...

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. ...

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, ...

The Birth of a Nation set the technical and artistic standards for the up-and-coming movie industry and became propaganda for Klan recruitment as it hailed Black people as sexual predators ...