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African American Cinema I, Oscar Micheaux's "Within Our Gates" (1919) (Library of Congress & Smithsonian Video) [VHS]
 
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African American Cinema I, Oscar Micheaux's "Within Our Gates" (1919) (Library of Congress & Smithsonian Video) [VHS] (1919)

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Oscar Micheaux's Within Our Gates is the earliest surviving feature directed by an African American. However, this startling film, unseen for 75 years, is far more than a historic curiosity. The 1993 Library of Congress inter-title restoration reveals it as passionate social history, confronting racism head-on through a story of a young African American woman who seeks a Northern white patron for a Southern school for black children. The scenes of lynching and attempted white-on-black rape may be a response to D.W. Griffith's The Birth of A Nation and remains shocking to this day.

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