Question

D. W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation chronicled the early days of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and had its premiere at Woodrow Wilson’s White House in 1915. Identify the statements that describe the movie.

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Answer:

D. W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation chronicled the early days of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and had its premiere at Woodrow Wilson’s White House in 1915. The statements that describe the movie are as follow:

• The movie depicted African-Americans as unworthy of participation in government and dangerous to white women.
• The movie glorified the Ku Klux Klan not as racist terrorists, but as heroes protecting virtuous white southerners from "uncivilized" blacks.
• This movie was released on 8 February 1915.