The Ku Klux Klan Biography

Birth of a Nation by DW Griffith released 1915 was a largely responsible for the glorification of the KKK. The film catered to the worst elements of white and black men’s fears. It presented the KKK as heroes and the Southern blacks as villains, gravely wounding the empowerment of black men and any acceptance of inter-racial sex.

On Thanksgiving night in 1915, 25,000 Klansmen marched through the streets of Atlanta to celebrate the opening of the film.