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Within Our Gates is a 1920 American silent race drama film produced, written and directed by Oscar Micheaux.
Within Our Gates: Directed by Oscar Micheaux. With Evelyn Preer, Flo Clements, James D. Ruffin, Jack Chenault. Abandoned by her fiancé, an educated black woman with a shocking past dedicates herself to helping a near bankrupt school for impoverished black youths.
Nov 17, 2016 · The oldest known surviving film made by an African-American director, portraying the contemporary racial situation in the United States during the early twentieth century.
Dec 18, 2011 · Abandoned by her fiancé, an educated negro woman with a shocking past dedicates herself to helping a near bankrupt school for impoverished negro youths. Within Our Gates was produced and...
Southern negro Sylvia Landry visits her cousin Alma in the north, where there is less racial prejudice than in her home town of Piney Woods in the deep south, and is anxiously awaiting her fiancé, Conrad.
Dec 11, 2017 · Many critics have seen “Within Our Gates” as Micheaux's response to D.W. Griffith’s “Birth of a Nation,” in which African Americans were depicted as generally negative stereotypes, as ...
Feb 1, 2021 · Evelyn Preer (Georgia Rose, Ladies of the Big House) stars as Sylvia Landry, an educated black woman who wants to help a school for impoverished black children.
