NAACP PROTEST OF "THE BIRTH OF A NATION."


Stop the Ku Klux Klan Propaganda in New York. New York: The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, [after 1920]. Printed broadside, 350 x 225 mm. Creased horizontally, very light thumbsoiling.This broadside was printed to encourage New Yorkers of all races and creeds to protest the re-release of the 1915 film The Birth of a Nation in New York theaters. It opens "'The Birth of a Nation' exalts the infamous Ku Klux Klan which has been publicly accused of voting to blow up or burn Negro school houses in 1921. The film distorts and falsifies history." The broadside goes on to mention Southern political criticism of recent violence perpetrated by the Klan, including in Georgia, Florida, North Carolina and South Carolina. "The best white papers of the South are openly opposing the revived Ku Klux Klan. / Do you know that the Ku Klux Klan is not only anti-Negro but anti-Jewish and anti-Catholic? ? Are you going to allow Ku Klux Klan propaganda to be displayed in the movies in New York City?"