America is believed to be founded as the first state founded on the notion that democracy is for all people, however this is far from the truth. Not only did it take almost two hundred years till the American government grants full opportunities to African American, they even accepted the slavery of these peoples for almost half of that time. A republic government, such as the American government, is based on the idea that all people can have an equal represented fairly and have an equal vote. This is very hard to accomplish when groups of people living within that republic are discriminated against. If society is not willing to see another group as equal they will not treat their ideas as equals.

The 1920's are a time of great prosperity in America. The Wall Street was hitting new highs and it seemed everyone was getting rich. Also the 20's brings to mind radical social change. The great experiment of probation was being tested, and flappers advocated woman's civil rights. Like other times in history when a nation goes through a period of great prosperity, or social changes there are conservative resistance groups. During the early twentieth century this group was know

"The Birth of a Nation" is a monumental piece of American work. Throughout history books and papers have been written to sway public opinion, but now Mr. Griffith is able to successfully put his controversial work to motion picture. This movie, made available to both the educated and uneducated, for one did not need high level reading skills to understand the silent flick, changed peoples opinions in a dramatic way. People could now spend only a few hours watching a film and still receive all the information from a proactive novel of the day.

Based off of the story "The Clansman" D.W. Griffith's "The Birth of a Nation" was a huge success not only for its excellent use of camera and acting, but also because people for years related to the story. After the movie came out some critics said it is a racist film. However, a majority of the public saw it as a great film that just happened to tell the truth about the Civil War, or at least in southerners' minds (Greene 30). The film even got more leeway from censors; "pictures showing murder and robbery were routinely censored. Furthermore, whites were willing to suppress but law boxing pictures in which blacks beat whites, bit they would not stop the exhibition of The Birth of a Nation" (Staiger 202). Furthermore, when the movie was first released, there was a growth in the Klan's membership (Staiger 202). In the movie the Ku Klux Klan is a force that rescues helpless women and children from angry and crazy colored people. In the story any person of color is either a good idiotic servant, or a wild perverted man (Staiger 197). Though racism was ramped after the Civil War, it was the racism of the early twentieth century. Evens writes in his article our nation was split during the Great War. Some people pulling for the Central Powers, and others the allies (Evans 319). Movies such as Birth of a Nation "harassed" people of color to join the war effort to prove their loyalist to America (Staiger 205).

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