Five thousand people crowd into the Academy of Music in downtown Charlotte. It is the premiere of the silent film "Birth of a Nation." A 30-piece orchestra accompanies it. Based on a novel by Shelby's Thomas W. Dixon, the controversial D.W. Griffith movie glorifies the Ku Klux Klan and its role in the Reconstruction era that followed the Civil War.

South Tryon Street (Academy of Music)




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