![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Griffith’s 1915 blockbuster, “The Birth of a Nation,” fanned the flames of the myth and led to a reborn Ku Klux Klan, a wave of lynchings across the South, and a Great Migration to the North, here recast as a generational fleeing of mob violence and entrenched Jim Crow second-class status. DuVernay connects the dots of 150 years of US history, beginning with the “myth of black criminality” that arose in the post-Civil War era, that fed into fears of black-on-white rape (when the historical reality tended to be the other way around), and that resulted in the mass arrests of newly freed African-Americans for “loitering” and “vagrancy”.ĭ.W. “History is not just stuff that happens by accident,” someone says here, and “13th” presents that clause as “an embedded tool,” one that guaranteed the continued shackling of 4 million people who were legally no longer property.
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