Birth of a Nation Film Still

Birth of a Nation
Title
Birth of a Nation Film Still
Description
The still image shows a frame from the 1915 silent film The Birth of a Nation depicting Ku Klux Klan members lynching Gus, an African American man, for "sexual pursuit" and "murder."
References
Wallace, M. F. (2003). The Good Lynching and “The Birth of a Nation”: Discourses and Aesthetics of Jim Crow. Cinema Journal, 43(1), 85–104. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1225932
Item sets
History and Memory
Media
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