The Birth of a Movement: How Birth of a Nation Ignited the Battle for Civil Rights - Paperback

by Dick Lehr (Author)

In this gripping historical novel, Dick Lehr tells the story of one protester in particular: Monroe Trotter, a black journalist who fought passionately for months to censor the film, challenging mass media and adding fuel to the nascent civil rights movement along the way. It was a public showdown that rolled America--pitting white against black, Hollywood against Boston, free speech against civil rights--and one that confronted the conflicted political soul of a still young America on the cusp of its greatest days.

Author Biography

Dick Lehr, a professor of journalism at Boston University, has won numerous national and regional journalism awards. He is a former investigative reporter, legal affairs, and magazine writer for the Boston Globe, where he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in investigative reporting. He is the author of The Fence: A Police Cover-up along Boston's Racial Divide, an Edgar Award finalist for best nonfiction, and coauthor of the New York Times bestseller and Edgar Award winner Black Mass: Whitey Bulger, the FBI, and a Devil's Deal, and its sequel, Whitey: The Life of America's Most Notorious Mob Boss. He lives outside Boston with his wife and four children.