Birth of a Nation (1915)

Starring:

• Henry B. Walthall
• Lillian Gish
• Mae Marsh
• Miriam Cooper
• Mary Alden
• Ralph Lewis
• George Siegmann
• Walter Long
• Robert Harron
• Wallace Reid
• Joseph Henabery

Storyline
Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans, and Southern landowners the Camerons intertwine in director D.W. Griffith's controversial Civil War epic. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron (Henry B. Walthall) is captured in battle, nurse Elsie Stoneman (Lillian Gish) petitions for his pardon. In Reconstruction-era South Carolina, Cameron found the Ku Klux Klan, battling Elsie's congressman father (Ralph Lewis) and his African-American protégé, Silas Lynch (George Siegmann).

Updates

Hello all,

I wanted to share a few updates with you all. This blog page is officially the Department of Afro American Research, Arts and Culture Archive (DAARAC Archive).

• The web address is https://www.daaracarchive.org.

IMPORTANT: 

• All links that were under SSL https://www.daarac.org no longer work and you will get a connection error.
• All links that are under http://www.daarac.org will be redirected to https://www.daaracarchive.org.
• The http://www.blaxploitationpride.org domain still works, but it will be redirected to https://www.daaracarchive.org. However, I will be ending the use of blaxploitationpride.org soon, so there is no need to use that domain to do any linking.

Our organizational website is now open and we are accepting donations for our mission. 

• The site address is https://www.daarac.ngo.

NGO stands for Non-Governmental Organization. This title legitimizes our status as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit private foundation. We will continue to operate this blog page the same way we have been doing for several years now.

Thanks for your understanding during this transition.

-Dr. James Spinks

President of DAARAC