 African Americans resisted through protests, marches, lobbying Congress, writing of articles, rebuttals of so-called justifications of lynching, organizing women's groups against lynching, and getting integrated groups against lynching.African-American playwrights produced 14 anti-lynching plays between 1916 and 1935, ten of them by women.After the release of the movie "The Birth of a Nation" (1915), which glorified lynching and the Reconstruction-era Klan, the Klan re-formed.