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"This most wonderful spectacle ever visioned is to be presented...on January 17 and 18.," gushes one collegiate writer at Denton Lass-O. The film was shown at the Old Main Building on the campus of C. I. A. (now TWU).

'Birth of a Nation' is scheduled to be shown at the Strand the same week two men are lynched in Pilot Point.

On January 17, 1917, and January 18, 1917, the College of Industrial Arts (TWU) will show "Birth of a Nation" by D. W. Griffith

Discussion of the sensationalism in "Birth of a Nation" and defense by the Denton Record-Chronicle whose editorial staff compared the film to "the loveliness of a rose-gold dawn, the awe-inspiring spectacle of a stormy sky, the majesty of snow-capped…

This advertisement for the new Ku Klux Klan was purchased by Simmons and run alongside an ad for the Atlanta premier of D. W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation. The new fraternal Klan initiated its charter class just in time to march down the street, in…

This advertisement for the new Ku Klux Klan was purchased by Simmons and run alongside an ad for the Atlanta premier of D. W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation. The new fraternal Klan initiated its charter class just in time to march down the street, in…

Society notes indicate Mrs. Jim Simmons, Mrs. Jesse Davidson, Mrs. William Davidson, Mr. & Mrs. A. W. Palmer, Miss Mildred Palmer, Mr. & Mrs. Cavier Lipscomb, Miss Minnie Pascall, Mrs. L. H. Schweer, Mrs. W. G. Edwards, and Miss Irene Davidson went…