Within our gates / Oscar Micheaux presents ; written, directed and produced by Oscar Micheaux.

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Created as a response to D.W. Griffith's 1915 film The Birth of a Nation, which depicted southern whites in need of the Ku Klux Klan to protect them from blacks, Micheaux shows the reality of Dixie racism in 1920, where a black man could be lynched for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Within our gates (Motion picture)
Corporate Authors: Micheaux Film Corporation (Production company), Kanopy (Firm) (Distributor)
Other Authors: Micheaux, Oscar, 1884-1951 (Film director, Film producer, Screenwriter), Preer, Evelyn (Actor), Clements, Flo (Actor), Ruffin, James D. (Actor), Chenault, Jack (Actor), Smith, William (William S.) (Actor), Lucas, Charles D. (Actor)
Language:No linguistic content
English
Language and/or Writing System:
Silent film with English intertitles and musical soundtrack.
Published: [San Francisco, Calif.] : Kanopy Streaming, [2017]
Subjects:
African American teachers > Drama.
African Americans > Southern States > 20th century > Drama.
Racism > United States > Drama.
Historical films.
Fiction films.
Feature films.
Silent films.
Genre:
Drama.
Historical films.
Fiction films.
Feature films.
Silent films.
Online Access:
Connect to online resource via Kanopy - MSU authorized users (kanopy)
Physical Description:1 online resource (1 video file (74 min.)) : sound, black and white.
Variant Title:
Negra
Format: Electronic Video

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Call Number: PN1995.75 .W585 2017 Online
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