... and reviled for its blatant racism: Walter Long in blackface as "Gus, a renegade negro" in D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation (1915)

… and reviled for its blatant racism: Walter Long in blackface as “Gus, a renegade negro” in D.W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation (1915)

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