The Birth of a Nation

The Birth of a Nation was the first movie ever shown inside the White House.

February 18, 1915

“The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation…..until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the southern country.”

President Woodrow Wilson

 

Born in 1891, Zora Neale Hurston

was 24 years old when

The Birth of a Nation 

was screened in the White House