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someone101 asked in Arts & HumanitiesHistory · 4 years ago

Was DW Griffith's Birth of a Nation considered racist when it was first released in 1915?

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  • tuffy
    Lv 7
    4 years ago

    Yes - The Great Migration began at that time. It ended in 1970.

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    The NAACP led an attempt to ban or censor the film before its release. Many newspapers printed negative criticism.

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    No, but attitudes to race were very different then.

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    Not to whites.

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  • mokrie
    Lv 7
    4 years ago

    No, it was just considered history and factual.

  • u_bin_called
    Lv 7
    4 years ago

    In many places, yes. Many big-city newspapers wrote editorials condemning the movie and several cities banned it in their their theaters outright.

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