“Birth of a nation”
- this article is about a 1915 silent film
- the film is a landmark of film history
- it part fiction and part history
- the assassination of Abraham Lincoln by john Wilkes
- this article was about the relationship of two families in the civil war in the reconstruction years
- the film was controversial because displayed white men and women as nice southern people while it portrayed African Americans as not being very smart or unintelligent. and even making the men seem sexually aggressive towards white women.
- African Americans all over protested the film but they were unsuccessful and whites still ran to see the film and it became nominated for many historic awards.
- this film had African Americans played as by white people with their face painted black “blackface”
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