Editing The Birth of a Nation (section)

=== KKK support ===
Studies have linked the film to greater support for the KKK.<ref name=":3">{{Cite journal |last=Ang |first=Desmond |date=2023 |title=The Birth of a Nation: Media and Racial Hate |url=https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20201867 |journal=American Economic Review |language=en |volume=113 |issue=6 |pages=1424–1460 |doi=10.1257/aer.20201867 |issn=0002-8282}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{Cite news |date=March 27, 2021 |title=A Tarnished Silver Screen: How a racist film helped the Ku Klux Klan grow for generations. |newspaper=The Economist |url=https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/03/27/how-a-racist-film-helped-the-ku-klux-klan-grow-for-generations |access-date=April 1, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Esposito |first1=Elena |last2=Rotesi |first2=Tiziano |last3=Saia |first3=Alessandro |last4=Thoenig |first4=Mathias |date=2023 |title=Reconciliation Narratives: The Birth of a Nation after the US Civil War |url=https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20210413 |journal=American Economic Review |language=en |volume=113 |issue=6 |pages=1461–1504 |doi=10.1257/aer.20210413 |s2cid=155099706 |issn=0002-8282|hdl=11585/927713 |hdl-access=free }}</ref> Glorifying the Klan to approving white audiences,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wiggins |first1=David K. |title=Out of the Shadows: A Biographical History of African American Athletes |date=2006 |publisher=University of Arkansas Press |page=59}}</ref> the film became a national cultural phenomenon: merchandisers made Ku Klux hats and kitchen aprons, and ushers dressed in white Klan robes for openings. In New York there were Klan-themed balls and, in Chicago that Halloween, thousands of college students dressed in robes for a massive Klan-themed party.<ref>{{cite podcast |url=http://www.southernhollows.com/episodes/birthofanation |title=A 1905 Silent Movie Revolutionizes American Film—and Radicalizes American Nationalists |website=Southern Hollows podcast |host=Stinson Liles |date=28 January 2018 |access-date=3 June 2018}}</ref>