Modern Era · North America · Culture
1915
Birth of a Nation released
1915
D. W. Griffith's three-hour epic about the Civil War and Reconstruction portrayed the Ku Klux Klan as heroic and was screened in the White House to Woodrow Wilson's apparent approval. It was a technical landmark in cinema, and a political and racial catastrophe. The Klan, which had been dead, was revived within months.
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Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.