Birth of a Movement | Independent Lens

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Published February 7, 2017 at 10:03 AM EST

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D. W. Griffith alongside his long-time cinematographer, Billy Bitzer.

Courtesy of The Tennessean John Lewis and police in Nashville, 1961.

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