Negro Caucus - 1871: South Carolina House (depicted at the 1h54m00s mark)

Scenes from Birth of A Nation by D.W. Griffith, 1915
view online at: http://www.archive.org/details/dw_griffith_birth_of_a_nation
Birth of a Nation, (1915) movie: 3h23s
scene descriptions source: http://intertitleorama.webs.com/birthofanation.html
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Excerpts from Woodrow Wilson's "History of the American People" 1908, Harper in New York, London: 
(read online at http://ia600500.us.archive.org/17/items/histampeople01wilsrich/histampeople01wilsrich_djvu.txt)
"..... Adventurers swarmed out of the North, as much enemies of the one race as of the other, to cozen, beguile, and use the negroes..... In the villages the negroes were the office holders, men who knew none of the uses of authority, except its insolences."
-- WOODROW WILSON
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".... The policy of the congressional leaders wrought ... a veritable overthrow of civilization in the South ..... in their determination to 'put the white South under the heel of the black South.'"
-- WOODROW WILSON
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"The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation ..... until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country."
-- WOODROW WILSON
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The riot in the Master's Hall. The Negro party in control in the State House of Representatives, 101 blacks against 23 whites, session of 1871. AN HISTORICAL FACSIMILE of the State House of Representatives of South Carolina as it was in 1870. After photograph by "The Columbia State"
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Historic incidents from the first legislative session under Reconstruction.
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The honorable member for Ulster.
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The speaker rules that all members must wear shoes.
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It is moved and carried that all whites must salute negro officers on the streets.
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The helpless white minority.
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White visitors in the gallery.
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Passage of a bill, providing for the intermarriage of blacks and whites.

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