What movie by D.W. Griffith glorified the Ku Klux Klan?
Ku Klux Klan in Canada or previous condition of servitude". This was followed by three Enforcement Acts, criminal codes protecting African Americans and primarily targeting the Ku Klux Klan. It was the third act, also known as the "Ku Klux Klan Act", which resulted in the termination of the Ku Klux Klan by 1872 and prosecution of hundreds of Klan members. The release of the film "The Birth of a Nation" by D. W. Griffith in 1915, glorifying the original Ku Klux Klan using historical revisionism, stoked resentment among some citizens and riots in cities where it screened. The day before Thanksgiving in 1915, William
The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan is a novel published in 1905. It was the second work in the Ku Klux Klan trilogy by Thomas F. Dixon Jr. that included "The Leopard's Spots" and "The Traitor". It was influential in providing the ideology that helped support the revival of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK or The Klan). The novel was twice notably adapted, immediately by its author as a play entitled "The Clansman" (1905), and a decade later by D. W. Griffith in the 1915 silent