Summary: Movie: This episode is the silent film "Within Our Gates" (1920) which dramatically depicts the racial situation in America during the violent years of Jim Crow, the Ku Klux Klan, the Great Migration, and the emergence of the "New Negro". Produced, written and directed by novelist Oscar Micheaux, it is the oldest known surviving film made by an African-American director. The film is considered an important document of African American life in the years immediately following World War I, when racism was still rampant throughout the United States. In 1992, "Within Our Gates" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
