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Ku Klux Klan Rebirth 1915

The Ku Klux Klan's rebirth in 1915, influenced by D.W. Griffith's film The Birth of a Nation and Thomas Dixon Jr.'s novel The Clansman.

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How did D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation and Thomas Dixon’s novel shape the 1915 Klan revival led by William J. Simmons?

D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation and Thomas Dixon Jr.’s novel The Clansman supplied the ideological script, imagery, and a popular soundtrack for William J. Simmons’s 1915 rebirth of the Ku Klux ...