Black Empire

The Birth of a Nation
Dick Leher

Valerie Charles





This book talks about the racism and the inequality black people faced when the film “Birth of a Nation” hit the world. It focuses on the changes an individual made many years ago that impacts our world today. It could make you upset or angry or sad based on the serious issues it talks about.

In The Birth of a Nation by Dick Leher, William Monroe Trotter, journalist and Harvard’s first black Phi Beta Kappa graduate and a leading newspaper editor speaks out against the film “Birth of a Nation” and how it may have been the best film for Caucasians but one of the worst films for black people. William fights against D.W Griffith, the filmmaker of “Birth of a Nation” and also reignites a protest that would soon lead up to the civil rights movement.

Although this film may have made a handful of people happy and put a smile on their faces, there were also many people who got torn down and thought very little of themselves. This book makes me think that people don’t have a true understanding of what it was like to live in a predominantly white society with the fear of being pushed around and hurt at the time of the Jim Crow Laws. I have watched clips of this film and one scene that stood out to me was the teenage girl jumping off the cliff that led up to the execution of the “black man”. Instead of speaking to this man and hearing him out, she decided to kill herself. This relates to what I’ve been saying because in the past society people would rather feel the need to kill or to be killed because all everyone sees is color.

I would strongly recommend this book to anybody who is very interested in the events that took place in history or the events that took place in black history. I personally liked this book because I am really interested in black history and I really love learning about the events that I have never known about.






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