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The Fight to Ban ‘Birth of a Nation’

Offensive Art

In 1915, black journalist Monroe Trotter tried to get D.W. Griffith’s troubling film banned in Boston, igniting a furious debate over racism, censorship, and free expression.

Jack Schwartz

Published Nov. 20 2014 5:30AM EST

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Jack Schwartz

Jack Schwartz

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