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Lillian Gish Interviews on YouTube

[unknown, British, 1969] https://youtu.be/yO_sYLq06hI

Cavette, 1971. https://youtu.be/ZOPY_8Gch-4

Griffith, 1980 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V3oc5ms1ro

Boggs, 1981 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3ZUTU9fwpA

Rivers, 1983 https://youtu.be/lNSoWbYY1fw

Good Morning, Jan22, 1987 https://youtu.be/MR78bPQ8UFg

[unknown]. “ on D.W. Griffith & Birth Of A Nation.” https://youtu.be/Wz5iDHKe_uQ

Works Consulted

Affron, C. (2002). Lillian Gish: Her legend, her life. Berkeley: University of Press.

Anti-Defamation League, “14 Words.” https://www.adl.org/education/references/hate- symbols/14-words

Baker, C. (2006). , justice, and the task of recognition. The Journal of American Culture, 29(2), 111-124.

Bogle, Donald. “Birth of a Nation.” (TCM Broadcast with commentary]. https://app.frame.io/presentations/b26b1256-c0d5-4d04-a8cc-e848ee80af67

Bowling Green State University. (1983). Lillian Gish and her art are finding a home at BGSU. At Bowling Green 13(1), 1-2.

[British Institute}. (2015). “ at 100 discussion.” BFI. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbBYa9XHvhY

Brows Held High. Why You Shouldn't Watch The Birth of a Nation (and why you should) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWroitR49Uc

Cook, D. A. (2016). A history of narrative film. WW Norton & Company.

Charlesworth, Paul. “David Wark Griffith: The Father of Motion Pictures !” http://pages.mtu.edu/~pcharles/GISH/dwg.html

[Christian Science Monitor.] “Lillian Gish -- from silent to TV specials.” CSM February 13, 1981. https://www.csmonitor.com/1981/0213/021300.html

Cosby, Bill and . “TCM Birth of a Nation: Race and Hollywood.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIFnFltJM8Q

Cram, B. Gray, S. (Director). (2017). Birth Of A Movement [Video file]. PBS. Retrieved April 17, 2019, from Kanopy.

Day, Jacque. “Western 's Night Riders: Activists, or Terrorists?” https://www.wkms.org/post/western-kentuckys-night-riders-activists-or-terrorists#stream/0

[DGA] “DGA Retires Dw Griffith Award: Guild to Create a New Career Achievement Award. https://www.dga.org/News/PressReleases/1999/1214-DGA-Retires-DW-Griffith-Award-Guild- to-Create-a-New-Career-Achievement-Award.aspx

Dixon, Thomas F. Jr. (1905). The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the . Rpt. U Kentucky P (1970)

Florida Division of Library and Information Services. “Rosewood.” https://dos.myflorida.com/library-archives/research/explore-our-resources/florida-history- culture-and-heritage/rosewood/#newspaper

Fristoe, Roger. “Lillian Gish Remembers the Silent Era.” TCM. http://www.tcm.com/this- month/article/1042501%7C1043579/Lillian-Gish-Remembers-the-Silent-Era.html

Fry, Gladys-Marie. Night Riders in Black Folk History . U North Carolina Press.

Gates, Henry Louis Jr. Reconstruction. PBS. https://www.pbs.org/weta/reconstruction/

Gish, L., & Pinchot, A. (1969). Lillian Gish: The movies, Mr. Griffith, and me. Englewood Cliffs, N.J: Prentice-Hall.

Gish, Lillian. “The Birth of an Era,” Stage, [no month]:1937. http://www.oldmagazinearticles.com/Lillian_Gish_star_of_Birth_of_a_Nation-pdf

Griffith. D.W. (1915). The Birth of a Nation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PrYrRt-M1s

Griffith, David Wark. (1916).The Rise and Fall of Free Speech in America. {s.n.] https://archive.org/details/riseandfallfree00grifgoog/page/n4

Hill, Donna. “The Project.” https://www.dorothy-gish.com/index.html

History.com Editors. “D.W. Griffith's 'Birth of A Nation' Opens, Glorifying the KKK.” https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/birth-of-a-nation-opens

History.com Editors. “Rosewood Massacre.” https://www.history.com/topics/early-20th- century-us/rosewood-massacre

Kehr, Dave. “Lillian Gish.” Tribune March 14, 1993. https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1993-03-14-9303180232-story.html

Krebs, Albin. “Lillian Gish, 99, a Movie Star Since Movies Began, is Dead.” New York Times March 1, 1993. https://www.nytimes.com/1993/03/01/movies/lillian-gish-99-a-movie-star- since-movies-began-is- dead.html?mtrref=www.google.com&gwh=FB192E7D5FF7A183C57A4A460EF6639B&gwt=pay

LaCour, M. (2013) adapted from Jackson, B., & Hardiman, R. (2006). Continuum on becoming an anti-racist, multicultural institution.

Lehr, D. (2014). The Birth of a Nation: How a Legendary Filmmaker and a Crusading Editor Reignited America's Civil War. PublicAffairs.

Levitz, Eric. (2019). “Ta-Nehisi Coates Is an Optimist Now A conversation about race and 2020.” New York [Magazine] march 17, 2019. http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/03/ta-nehisi- coates-race-politics-2020-elections.html

Lillian Gish: A Century of Dreams. https://lilliangish1893.com

McGilligan, P. (2007). , the Great and Only: The Life of America's First Black Filmmaker. HarperCollins.

McEwan, P. (2015). BFI Film Classics: The Birth of a Nation. BFI Publishing.

McGilligan, P. (2007). Oscar Micheaux, the Great and Only: The Life of America's First Black Filmmaker. HarperCollins.

McWhirter, C. (2011). : The summer of 1919 and the awakening of Black America. Henry Holt and Company.

[] (n.d.). “D. W. Griffith’s Intolerance.” https://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/2009/11/24/d-w-griffiths-intolerance/

Powell, Lisa. “Dayton’s first movie stars: The Gish sisters, idols in Hollywood’s infancy.” Dayton Daily News February 26, 2018. https://www.daytondailynews.com/news/dayton-first-movie-stars-the-gish-sisters-silent-film- idols-hollywood-infancy/QLE4pZp987zoTHngxRuRZP/

Ohio History Central. “Lillian D. Gish.” http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/w/Lillian_D._Gish

Rosenwald, Michael. “The Ku Klux Klan was dead. The First Hollywood blockbuster revived it.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/07/08/the-ku-klux-klan-had- been-destroyed-then-the-first-hollywood-blockbuster-revived- it/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.645928c93b7a

Simcovitch, Maxim. (1972) The Impact of Griffith’s Birth of a Nation on the Modern Ku Klux Klan, Journal of Popular Film, 1:1, 45-54.

Smith, Wendy. “Lillian Gish: Her Legend, Her Life.” Variety February 22, 2001. https://variety.com/2001/more/reviews/lillian-gish-her-legend-her-life-1200466640/

Southern Poverty Law Center. “Ku Klux Klan: A History of Racism.” https://www.splcenter.org/20110228/ku-klux-klan-history-racism van Vechten, Carl. “Lillian Gish.” http://brbl- archive.library.yale.edu/exhibitions/cvvpw/gallery/gish1.html

Whitman, Charles S. (1963) “Dorothy Gish: Silhouette.”The Harvard Crimson March 12, 1963.

Cosby, Bill and Donald Bogle. “TCM Birth of a Nation: Race and Hollywood.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIFnFltJM8Q

Documents from the BGSU Archives

Various Authors (1972-1981). Letters, Memos, Additional Correspondence. Bowling Green State University Archives (Faculty Senate and Olscamp, Box 59). BGSU Libraries, Bowling Green, OH.