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.
The 1973 documentary directed by St. Clair Bourne chronicles Hudson 'Dusty' Barksdale, a young African American seminary student in Atlanta. As Barksdale aspires to be a minister, he explores the influence of the Black church in both rural…