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Within Our Gates is a 1920 American silent race drama film produced, written and directed by Oscar Micheaux. The film portrays the contemporary racial situation in the United States during the early twentieth century, the years of Jim Crow , the revival of the Ku Klux Klan , the Great Migration of blacks to cities of the North and Midwest, and the emergence of the " New Negro ".
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.
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- Drama, Romance
- Oscar Micheaux
- 1920-01-12
Within Our Gates. In this early silent film from pioneering director Oscar Micheaux, kindly Sylvia Landry (Flo Clements) takes a fundraising trip to Boston in hopes of collecting $5,000 to keep a ...
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- Evelyn Preer
- Oscar Micheaux
- Drama
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 childr...
- 77 min
- 9.6K
- The Film Detective
She goes up north again to try to raise the money and has little success, but meets kindly negro, Dr. V. Vivian, who helps her regain her stolen purse. When she saves a child from being hit by an auto, she herself is slightly injured. But the owner of the car is philanthropist Mrs. Elena Warwick, who is sympathetic to her quest and promises to ...
Jan 28, 2016 · Within Our Gates. By Richard Brody. January 28, 2016. Oscar Micheaux’s bold, forceful melodrama, from 1919—the oldest surviving feature by a black American director—unfolds the vast ...
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Nov 17, 2016 · The oldest known surviving film made by an African-American director, Within Our Gates is a searing account of the US racial situation during the early twentieth century, including the years of Jim Crow, the revival of the Ku Klux Klan, the Great Migration of Southern blacks to cities in the North, and the emergence of the "New Negro". Directed by Oscar Micheaux, the film is one of the ...
