The Birth of a Movement: How Birth of a Nation Ignited the Battle for Civil Rights by Lehr, Dick
The Birth of a Movement: How Birth of a Nation Ignited the Battle for Civil Rights by Lehr, Dick

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

At the dawn of the modern civil rights movement, Monroe Trotter, a journalist agitator, and D.W. Griffith,...
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Author: Dick Lehr
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The Birth of a Movement: How Birth of a Nation Ignited the Battle for Civil Rights by Lehr, Dick

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

$43.59
The Birth of a Movement: How Birth of a Nation Ignited the Battle for Civil Rights by Lehr, Dick

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

$43.59
Author: Dick Lehr
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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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 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.

Author: Dick Lehr
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 01/10/2017
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781610398237

About the Author
Dick Lehr, a professor of journalism at Boston University, has won numerous national and regional journalism awards. He is a former investigative reporter, legal affairs, and magazine writer for the Boston Globe, where he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in investigative reporting. He is the author of The Fence: A Police Cover-up along Boston's Racial Divide, an Edgar Award finalist for best nonfiction, and coauthor of the New York Times bestseller and Edgar Award winner Black Mass: Whitey Bulger, the FBI, and a Devil's Deal, and its sequel, Whitey: The Life of America's Most Notorious Mob Boss. He lives outside Boston with his wife and four children.
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