English subtitles. Reproduction of a single surviving print found in Spain retitled as La Negra. "The original English intertitles remain lost ... the intertitles on this restoration can only approximate Micheaux's originals. They are a translation from Spanish back into English." Videocassette release of the 1919 motion picture. Evelyn Preer, Flo Clements, James D. Ruffin, Jack Chenault.
Summary:
The earliest surviving feature directed by an African-American, Within our gates tells the 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.
Series:
African American cinema ; 1 Library of Congress video collection ; v.1
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