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Second Ku Klux Klan and The Birth of a Nation
A press release from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) about a Ku Klux Klan lynching, 1926.

A press release from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) about a Ku Klux Klan lynching, 1926.

This press release includes details of a report written by Walter White, a civil rights activist and journalist, about the lynching of Bertha Lowman. Lowman, her brother, and her cousin were lynched by the Ku Klux Klan in Aiken, South Carolina.

Citation Information
Press Service of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, “Press releases from the Press Service of the NAACP,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/2ee3719f4e9ea77f36885f121895e398.
Note: These citations are programmatically generated and may be incomplete.
Courtesy of Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries via Digital Commonwealth.

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Item 13 of 15 in the Primary Source Set Second Ku Klux Klan and The Birth of a Nation

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A Ku Klux Klan flag, 1865.
A Ku Klux Klan whip, ca. 1875.
A flyer explaining the purpose of the Ku Klux Klan from the second half of the nineteenth century.
A photograph of Jewish businessman Leo Frank at his murder trial in a courtroom in Marietta, Georgia, 1913.
A photograph of William J. Simmons, the founder of the Second Ku Klux Klan, 1921.
A photograph of early twentieth-century filmmaker D. W. Griffith who produced The Birth of A Nation, ca. 1923.
An excerpt from a souvenir program for the silent film The Birth of a Nation, 1915.
A movie poster for D. W. Griffith’s film The Birth of a Nation, 1921.
An essay discussing the reception of The Birth of a Nation, 1936.
An excerpt from a book entitled Ku Klux Klan Secrets Exposed, 1921.
A photograph of a Ku Klux Klan initiation ceremony in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1925.
A photograph of a Ku Klux Klan rally in Indiana, 1920s-1930s.
A press release from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) about a Ku Klux Klan lynching, 1926.
A Ku Klux Klan uniform, ca. 1930.
A Ku Klux Klan mailer asking the reader to buy only American goods, 1940.

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