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Group of Klansmen surround freedman Gus (played by white actor Walter Long in blackface) in a scene from director D. W. Griffith's 1915 motion picture The Birth of a Nation.

A Hip Hop song by Public Enemy that reflects the affects of Crack/Base on the African Amerrican Community.

A photo of the Cotton Club at night, there are many signs, one of them includes the way they advertised their black performers.

A song written by Abel Meeropol and sung by Billie Holiday addressing the lynchings of black people in the Jim Crow South.