But that was the general view of the times, north and south, ... He was not unusual in that view. The only thing was that he became exceptional with an exceptional movie that many people increasingly moving into human rights said 'this is too threatening ...'

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It was one of the main gripes of the early civil rights movement and the NAACP, ... It was the major battle that they fought, because this was major propaganda.

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That was normal public opinion, ... He was not abnormal.

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Birth of a Nation.

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