The Birth of a Movement: How Birth of a Nation Ignited the Battle for Civil Rights

By Dick Lehr

Book Overview

In this gripping historical novel, Dick Lehr tells the story of one protester in particular: Monroe Trotter, a black journalist who fought passionately for months to censor the film, challenging mass media and adding fuel to the nascent civil rights movement along the way. It was a public showdown that rolled America--pitting white against black, Hollywood against Boston, free speech against civil rights--and one that confronted the conflicted political soul of a still young America on the cusp of its greatest days.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1610398238
• ISBN13: 9781610398237
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: PublicAffairs
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.2"