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unusual facts about Theatrical poster for ''The Birth of a Nation



Greensboro massacre

Hostility between the groups flared in July 1979 when protesters disrupted a screening of the 1915 epic, The Birth of a Nation directed by D. W. Griffith, a cinematographic portrayal of the formation of a Ku Klux Klan, in China Grove, North Carolina.

Judge Priest

Twenty years before Judge Priest was released, Walthall starred as the Little Colonel in the D. W. Griffith film The Birth of a Nation (1915).

Ku Klux Klan members in United States politics

Wyn Craig Wade has asserted that Edward Douglass White, the Chief Justice of the United States from 1910 to 1921, told Thomas Dixon "I was a member of the Klan" at the 1915 White House screening of The Birth of a Nation.

Louis T. Wright

His efforts related to Civil Rights began in college when he missed three weeks of school to join picket lines protesting The Birth of a Nation.

Martha Ellen Auditorium

A list of events from 1916 and 1917 includes films, among them D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation and The Avenging Conscience, operas, lectures, plays, and a heavyweight wrestling match.

Piedmont, South Carolina

Piedmont was the setting for the vast majority of the film The Birth of a Nation.

Rebirth of a Nation

The title of the album is a reference to the 1915 white supremacist film The Birth of a Nation as well as one of the group's prior albums, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back.

Universal City, California

The Providencia Land and Water Development Company property was used as a location for some early films, most significantly the battle scenes in the silent classic about the American Civil War, The Birth of a Nation (1915).


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