1910's The Arts | Debate Over the Birth of a Nation

"Capitalizing Race Hatred"

Editorial

By: New York Globe Date: April 6, 1915

Source: "Capitalizing Race Hatred." New York Globe, April 6, 1915. Reprinted in "The Birth of a Nation": D.W. Griffith, Director. Robert Lang, ed. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1994.

"Reply to the New York Globe"

Letter

By: D.W. Griffith

Date: April 10, 1915

Source: Griffith, D.W. "Reply to the New York Globe." New York Globe, April 10, 1915. Reprinted in "The Birth of a Nation": D.W. Griffith, Director. Robert Lang, ed. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1994.

About the Author: David Lewelyn Wark Griffith (1875–1948) was born into an impoverished family in Crestwood, Kentucky. The son of a former Confederate soldier, Griffith wanted to be a playwright, but...