William Monroe Trotter
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William Monroe Trotter, sometimes just Monroe Trotter, was an American newspaper editor and real estate businessman based in Boston, Massachusetts. An activist for African-American civil rights, he wa
1915 photograph
Booker T. Washington giving a speech at Carnegie Hall in New York City, 1909
W. E. B. Du Bois, 1904 photo
Political cartoon about the 1912 presidential election, depicting Theodore Roosevelt (cowboy hat), Woodrow Wilson (cap), and William Howard Taft (top hat)
The Birth of a Nation
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The Birth of a Nation is a 1915 American silent epic drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish. The screenplay is adapted from Thomas Dixon Jr.'s 1905 novel and play The Clansman
William Monroe Trotter
…workplace. In Boston, Trotter succeeded in shutting down productions of The Clansman in 1910, but he was unsuccessful in 1915 with screenings of the movie The Birth of a Nation, which also portrayed the Ku Klux Klan in favorable terms. He was not able to influence the peace talks at the end of World War I, and was in later…
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The film's portrayal of the Siege of Petersburg, led by Ben Cameron
Hooded Klansmen catch Gus, portrayed in blackface by white actor Walter Long
George Siegmann, Ralph Lewis, Lillian Gish, and Henry B. Walthall in a scene of the film