The Classic Black Cinema Series - Within Our Gates at Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture

• When: Sunday, February 10, 2019,  2:00 pm -  4:00 pm
  
• Location: Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture 551 S Tryon St, Charlotte, North Carolina 28202.

(1920) This is the first surviving film directed and produced by Oscar Micheaux, the first black American film director. The film is Micheaux's response to the 1915 propaganda, The Birth of a Nation by D.W. Griffith.

"Within Our Gates" is a silent film and stars an independent heroine, Evelyn Preer, fighting for what she believes in. Abandoned by her fiancé, an educated black woman with a shocking past dedicates herself to helping a near bankrupt school for impoverished black youth.

"Within Our Gates" stars an independent heroine fighting for what she believes in.

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