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The Birth of a Nation

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Dick Lehr, author of The Birth of a Nation, will discuss how Monroe Trotter, civil rights activist, and DW Griffith, filmmaker fought over Griffin's 1915 film that depicted the Civil War and Reconstruction era in a racist manner, making the KKK as heroes and African Americans as villians.

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