Within Our Gates (1920)

Starring:

• Evelyn Preer 
• Flo Clements 
• James D. Ruffin
• William Smith
• Jack Chenault 
• Charles D. Lucas 
• Bernice Ladd 
• Mrs. Evelyn 
• William Starks 
• Mattie Edwards 
• Ralph Johnson 
• E.G. Tatum 

Storyline
In this early silent film from pioneering director Oscar Micheaux, kindly Sylvia Landry (Evelyn Preer) takes a fundraising trip to Boston in hopes of collecting $5,000 to keep a Southern school for impoverished black children open to the public. She then meets the warmhearted Dr. Vivian (Charles D. Lucas), who falls in love with Sylvia and travels with her back to the South. There, Dr. Vivian learns about Sylvia's shocking, tragic past and realizes that racism has changed her life forever.

The Symbol of the Unconquered (1920)

 Starring:

• Iris Hall
• Walker Thompson
• Lawrence Chenault
• Mattie Wilkes 
• Louis Dean 
• Leigh Whipper 
• Jim Burris 
• E.G. Tatum

Storyline
After the death of her grandfather, Evon Mason, a young black woman from Selma, Alabama, travels to the Northwest to identify the mine claim she had been willed. There, Evon meets Hugh Van Allen, a black man seeking his fortune. Hugh, who loves Evon but thinks that she is white, discovers oil, thereby arousing the enmity of Tom Cutschawl, a racist Southerner, and Jefferson Driscoll, a black man passing for white who hates his own race. These two provoke an attack of the Ku Klux Klan to drive Hugh off the land, but Evon rescues Hugh, and the Klan is routed. Evon and Hugh eventually resolve their misunderstanding and live happily ever after.