- newspaper: The Guardian; organization: National Association of the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
- groups and organizations were effective ways to build a stronger platform
- DuBois focused on people being on his side & was gentle; Trotter was more aggressive.
- critics called it racist, and that it helped revive the KKK
- Lynching/hanging, stoning. This was all prevalent in the film. People are impressionable.