The Birth of a MovementIn 1915 two menone a journalist agitator the other a technically brilliant filmmakerincited a public confrontation that roiled America pitting black against white Hollywood against Boston and free speech against civil rights. Monroe Trotter and D. W. Griffith were fighting over a film that dramatized the Civil War and Reconstruction in a post Confederate South. Griffith's film The Birth of a Nation included actors in blackface heroic portraits of

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