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.

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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