Date
10-2021
Department
College of Arts and Sciences
Degree
Master of Arts in History - Thesis (MA)
Chair
Luci Vaden
Keywords
Ku Klux Klan, Indiana, Progressive Era
Disciplines
History
Recommended Citation
Wilson, Alexis R., "The Red Schoolhouse, the Military Machine and “TWK”: The Growth and Decay of the Indiana Klan in the 1920s" (2021). Masters Theses. 789.
https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/masters/789
Abstract
“It is called the true story of the Northern side of the Civil War… The Birth of a Nation had forever wiped out the Mason and Dixon.”1 The film The Birth of a Nation (1915) captured the minds and imaginations of people across America. The phenomenally successful and popular film was based on the book The Clansman, A Historic Romance of the Ku Klux Klan (1905), written by Thomas Dixon Jr. The film romanticized the Civil War and skewed the view of the Southern Reconstruction. It portrayed the Ku Klux Klan as the figure who restored the South. The Birth of a Nation grossed almost eighteen million dollars by the time the film was retired.
