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...Practical Fraternity." The Klan mentality, however, never died; it merely lay quiescent, while apologists fed it intravenously with myths. 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...
...like Uncle Tom himself, it's clearly because playing a stereo-type means playing it safe in the South. But this film isn't meant to be an argument or a case history. It is particular; it asks us to be Duff Anderson for 92 minutes. Where D. W. Griffith, for instance, appealed to the fears of a group, this movie appeals to the aspirations of individuals...
...Griffith's ideas were politically naive," she continued, "but the movie is a master-piece. It brought the motion-picture industry out of the nickelodeon stage. We are presenting it as an artistic document...
Twenty-five members of a local branch the NAACP picketed the Brattle Street Theatre last night to protest the showing of D. W. Griffith's classic moving film Birth of a Nation...
...Griffith was a Southerner, the son of a Confederate colonel, and his film has strong racist overtones...