Group of Klansmen surround freedman Gus (played by white actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Long" class="extiw" title="en:Walter Long">Walter Long</a> in blackface) in a scene from director <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._W._Griffith" class="extiw" title="en:D. W. Griffith">D. W. Griffith</a>'s 1915 motion picture <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birth_of_a_Nation" class="extiw" title="en:The Birth of a Nation">The Birth of a Nation</a></i>.
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:D._W._Griffith" class="extiw" title="w:en:D. W. Griffith"><span title="American film director and producer (1875–1948)">D. W. Griffith</span></a>
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1915
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