Propaganda

Birth Of A Nation

A film depicting the foundation of the KKK as heroic and honorable, making them out to be defenders of the south.. President Waldorf Wilson hosted a watch party stating that it was a “beautiful film”

Gone With The Wind

This movie depicts the north as oppressors of the south, it makes slaves seem happy in their conditions and paints the confederacy as nobel

Film

The growing industry was used to create propaganda to reenforce and normalize racist ideas, reassuring people that their hateful views were valid

Art

Political cartoons and other art works circled about the United States that depicted black men as dangerous and lustful for white women

Monuments

Bridges, statues, schools, ect. put up in the south in honor of confederate soldiers

Lynching

The act of hanging a black person and leaving their body to send a message to other African Americans that they’re not safe. African Americans couldn’t serve jury, people were never charged for these murders