hi! you may be interested in a couple of earlier posts

• Is it true that the movie 'The Birth of a Nation' revitalized a previously dormant KKK?

• How much did DW Griffith's infamous movie "The Birth of a Nation" influence the rise of the KKK? Was it a major factor or simply a spark for a powder keg?

and these ones, which came up in my search & may be of tangential interest

• The Klu Klux Klan started around 1865, but who were its predecessors and what was the Klan's antebellum origin?

• I just saw the Birth of a Nation for the first time. I have a lot of questions.