Birth of a Nation: A Resource Page

After the Civil War, the Ku Klux Klan “was largely halted following federal legislation targeting Klan-perpetrated violence in the early 1870s,” said Klansville, U.S.A. author David Cunningham in a PBS documentary. In 1905, Thomas Dixon, Jr., wrote the Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan, later turned into the silent film “the Birth of a Nation” in 1915. The White supremacist frame of Black men pillaging, raping, and murdering was returning to the mainstream.