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This still from the 1915 movie The Birth of a Nation portrays the Ku Klux Klan capturing a savage free black named Gus (played by Walter Long in blackface) who is wanted for terrorizing a local white woman. The movie is notorious for its exceedingly stereotypical and demonic portrayal of blacks, particularly recently-freed blacks in a post-Reconstruction world; and for its sympathetic portrayal of the KKK as a populist militia restoring order to an upended South.