Remembrance Wall

Title: Within Our Gates

Date: 1919

Distributor: Micheaux Book and Film Co.

Director: Oscar Micheaux

Cast: Evelyn Preer, William Starks, Mattie Edwards, E.G. Tatum, S.T. Jacks, Grant Edwards, Jack Chenault, Charles D. Lucas, Flo Clements, Jimmie Cook

Summary: Sharecropper Jasper Landry and his educated, adopted daughter Sylvia prepare a bill for Philip Girdlestone, the plantation owner. Eph stirs up trouble by telling Girdlestone that Landry educates his children and that he won’t accept the owner’s offer. The meeting between Girdlestone and Landry ends with Landry standing over the plantation owner’s dead body with a gun in his hand. A mob tries to lynch Landry and his family.

Notes:In 1989 Susan Dalton at the National Center for Film and Video Preservation at the American Film Institute acquired a Spanish-release print entitled “La Negra.”