Protests Against Birth of a Nation, 1915 (4)
A scene from The Birth of a Nation, 1915, depicting the speaker of the South Carolina Legislature and other officers during a Reconstruction session in 1871. The scene was part […]
A scene from The Birth of a Nation, 1915, depicting the speaker of the South Carolina Legislature and other officers during a Reconstruction session in 1871. The scene was part […]
The Lykens Standard, published on Friday, September 10, 1926, claimed it was a meteor, and gave the most extensive coverage to the event. The Elizabethville Echo, published the day before […]
A photograph taken at Arlington National Cemetery, Washington, D. C., depicting members of the Ku Klux Klan along with members of the American Legion jointly participating in a funeral. The […]
An undated portrait of Congressman William W. Griest (1858-1929), who served in Congress from 1909 until his death in 1929, representing the Pennsylvania district that included Lancaster, the home town […]
Today’s blog post looks at the initial response to the news that The Birth of A Nation, D. W. Griffith‘s photoplay about the Civil War and the rise of the Ku […]
A screen capture from the silent film Birth of a Nation, D. W. Griffith‘s photoplay about the Civil War and the rise of the Ku Klux Klan after the war. […]
A newspaper story on the June 1925 Ku Klux Klan demonstration at Pine Grove, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, from the Pine Grove Press Herald, June 19, 1925: Klan Demontration The K. […]
A notice of Klan Field Day in Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, was printed in the August 26, 1926 issue of the Elizabethville Echo: KLAN TO HOLD FIELD DAY HERE, SATURDAY […]