The Jim Crow Era: How did early movies shape ideas about race & gender?

The Birth of a Nation

1915

190 minutes long

*fast fact* - first movie to be shown in the White House
*fast fact* - original title was The Clansman

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Wondering how African-Americans and their allies responded?

Encyclopedia of American Race Riots by Walter C. Rucker and James N. Upton