Within Our Gates

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Within Our Gates (1920 film)
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Directed by	Oscar Micheaux
Written by	Oscar Micheaux
Produced by	Oscar Micheaux
Starring	Evelyn Preer Floy Clements James D. Ruffin Jack Chenault William Smith Charles D. Lucas
Music by	Philip Carli (not original to 1920)
Distributed by	Micheaux Book & Film Company
Release date	January 12, 1920 (1920-01-12)
Running time	79 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

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".

The plot features an African-American woman who goes North in an effort to raise money for a rural school in the Deep South for poor Black children. Her romance with a Black doctor eventually leads to revelations about her family's past and her own mixed-race, European ancestry. The film portrays racial violence under white supremacy, and the lynching of black people. It is the oldest known surviving film by an African-American director and has been named as one of the greatest films of all time by a Black director.^[1]