The Birth of a Movement: How Birth of a Nation Ignited the Battle for Civil Rights

by Dick Lehr

At the dawn of the modern civil rights movement, Monroe Trotter, a journalist agitator, and D.W. Griffith, a technically brilliant filmmaker, incited a public confrontation that roiled America, pitting black against white, Hollywood against Boston, and free speech against the fight for equality.

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1610398238
• ISBN13: 9781610398237
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: PublicAffairs
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.2"