The influential cultural film during the 1920s, Birth of a Nation by D.W. Griffith, stirred extensive protest by African Americans because
A. the film was heavily financed by white racist Hollywood film business owners.
B. the film depicted the black leader Marcus Garvey in an unfavorable light.
C. African Americans were not allowed to see the film even in northern movie theaters.
D. the film glorified the Ku Klux Klan and portrayed blacks as corrupt politicians or rapists.
E. Griffith failed to give credit to the civil rights advocacy work and black intellectual leadership of W.E.B. Du Bois.
Answer: D
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