Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Birth of a MovementCondition: NewSubtitle: How Birth of a Nation Ignited the Battle for Civil RightsISBN-10: 1610398238EAN: 9781610398237ISBN: 9781610398237Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.Format: PaperbackRelease Date: 05/04/2017Description: In 1915, two men,one a journalist agitator, the other a technically brilliant filmmaker,incited a public confrontation that roiled America, pitting black against white, Hollywood against Boston, and free speech against civil rights.Monroe Trotter and D. W. Griffith were fighting over a film that dramatized the Civil War and Reconstruction in a post-Confederate South. Griffith's film, The Birth of a Nation , included actors in blackface, heroic portraits of Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, and a depiction of Lincoln's assassination. Freed slaves were portrayed as villainous, vengeful, slovenly, and dangerous to the sanctity of American values. It was tremendously successful, eventually seen by 25 million Americans. But violent protests against the film flared up across the country.Almost fifty years earlier, Monroe's father, James, was a sergeant in an all-black Union regiment that marched into Charleston, South Carolina, just as the Kentucky cavalry,including Roaring Jack Griffith, D. W.'s father,fled for their lives. Monroe Trotter's titanic crusade to have the film censored became a blueprint for dissent during the 1950s and 1960s. This is the fiery story of a revolutionary moment for mass media and the nascent civil rights movement, and the men clashing over the cultural and political soul of a still-young America standing at the cusp of its greatest days.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 210mmItem Length: 143mmItem Width: 22mmItem Weight: 416gAuthor: Dick LehrGenre: Law & PoliticsTopic: History, Society & Culture, Social SciencesRelease Year: 2017 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: The Birth of a Movement
Title: The Birth of a Movement
Subtitle: How Birth of a Nation Ignited the Battle for Civil Rights
ISBN-10: 1610398238
EAN: 9781610398237
ISBN: 9781610398237
Release Date: 05/04/2017
Release Year: 2017
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Book Title: Birth of a Movement : How Birth of a Nation Ignited the Battle for Civil Rights
Number of Pages: 368 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Public Affairs
Publication Year: 2017
Item Height: 0.9 in
Topic: United States / 20th Century, Social History, Individual Director (See Also Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts), Film / History & Criticism, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Performing Arts, Social Science, History
Item Weight: 14.7 Oz
Item Length: 8.2 in
Author: Dick Lehr
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
