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The Guardian was the name of the newspaper in response to both The Birth of a Nation and white supremacy in general. There was a rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan after the the film
The Ku Klux Klan put down African Americans and enforced the idea of white supremacy. The NAACP was already founded before the film, they did a lot of work to try and give African Americans a voice against white Supremacy. The Guardian newspaper did this as well.
Monroe Trotter grew up in an all white neighborhood and became the valedictorian at his all white school. He founded the Guardian newspaper. He also spent 30 days in jail for fighting against Washington. DuBois wrote in order to give African Americans a book, at this time he wrote, “The Souls of Black Folk”. He wanted to give African Americans a voice.
Trotter led the Boston protest outside of the movie theater. Trotter and others tried to get tickets, but they would not sell to African Americans. Trotter got arrested. Then Trotter, Washington and DuBois led a march on the State House. He appealed to the governor to amend the censorship law. However, the film was not banned.
Lynching, and killing African Americans was illegal and happened during this time.