THE BIRTH OF A NATION movie still shows Klansmen
THE BIRTH OF A NATION movie still shows Klansmen menacing an African American freedman, Gus. Played by white actor Walter Long, Gus menaces a white woman, Flora Cameron, who dies as she tries to escape. Guss lynching is depicted as just punishment in the 1915 film by D. W. Griffith (BSLOC_2017_20_70)
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Mary Evans / Everett Collection
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Everett Collection
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