Birth of a Movement
Birth of a Movement Independent Lens
Birth of a Movement
The story of William Monroe Trotter, the nearly forgotten editor of a Boston black newspaper who helped launch a nationwide movement in 1915 to ban Hollywood’s first blockbuster movie, the later controversial The Birth of a Nation.
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