Birth of a Nation Film Still
Item
- 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
- Site pages
- The Work: The Lincoln Motion Picture Company
- Media
Birth of a Nation