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
Description
Summary:
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.
Note:Originally produced as a silent motion picture in 1920.
Playlist includes two bonus films: An introduction (7 min.) and The films of Oscar Micheaux (9 min.)
Call Number:PN1995.75 .W585 2017 Online
Cast:
Evelyn Preer, Flo Clements, James D. Ruffin, Jack Chenault, William Smith, Charles D. Lucas.
Source of Description:
Online resource; title from title frames (viewed December 29, 2020)