Oscar Micheaux’s Within Our Gates – Part 5

Continuing our celebration of 100 Years of Black Cinema, the next part of “Within Our Gates”, an early work of one of one of Black Cinema’s founding fathers — Oscar Micheaux.

The story focuses on an African-American woman who goes North in an effort to help a minister in the Deep South raise money to keep a school open for poor Black children. Her romance with a black doctor eventually leads to revelations about her family’s past that expose the racial skeletons in America’s closet, most famously through the film’s depiction of the injustice of lynching.

If you missed part 4 yesterday afternoon, check it HERE.

SEE this film in its entirety on February 25 at ICE Chatham Theaters, 210 West 87th Street, Chicago. Showtime is 7:00PM and admission is $5.00. A post-film discussion follows, moderated by Salim Muwakki, WVON; Panelists: Timuel Black, Professor Emeritus of Social Science at the City Colleges of Chicago; Nina Cartier, Doctoral Candidate at Northwestern University; and Black Box Office contributor Floyd Webb, filmmaker/producer.

(Main image from the BFI from Floyd Webb’s personal collection)

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