Sergio Mims sends another informative link related to the film Within Our Gates:
Music Box Theatre
Within Our Gates
Saturday, 9 February, 2013 12:00 PM
directed by Oscar Micheaux
The earliest surviving African-American directed feature film, the
sole print of this superb race film was discovered in Spain and
painstakingly restored by the Library of Congress in 1993.
The emotionally powerful story centers around a black schoolteacher
who finds the battle against racism is everywhere when she goes North to
raise money for better schools. Seen as a response to D. W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation,
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”. Shot mostly
in Chicago!
Print courtesy of the Library of Congress
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