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Oscar Micheaux's Within Our Gates

Abandoned by her fiancé, an educated black woman with a shocking past dedicates herself to helping a near bankrupt school for impoverished black yo...

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The Cry of Jazz

Film Village Classics • 34m

A 1959 documentary film by Edward O. Bland that connects jazz to African American history. It uses footage of Chicago's black neighborhoods, performances by Sun Ra, John Gilmore, and Julian Priester and the music of Sun Ra and Paul Severson interspersed with scenes of musicians and intellectuals, both black and white, conversing at a jazz club.

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  • Oscar Micheaux's Within Our Gates
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    Oscar Micheaux's Within Our Gates

    Oscar Micheaux's Within Our Gates

    Abandoned by her fiancé, an educated black woman with a shocking past dedicates herself to helping a near bankrupt school for impoverished black youths. - Directed by Oscar Micheaux

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