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A look at the life and work of Oscar Micheaux, a pioneer of the African American film industry

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

Racists learn that the land a negro owns lies over a vast oil field, and threaten his life when he refuses to sell

A young man named Jean in post World War I Chicago falls in love with a beautiful girl named Edith He proposes to her, but realizes that shes involved in the rackets and wont leave them, so he goes back home to South Dakota, where

Ted Gregory is trying to be the first black producer to mount a show on Broadway, but he has trouble with his star singer

A malevolent phony preacher plots to take advantage of a woman from his congregation who happens to be in love with his long estranged identical twin brother

A movie producer offers a nightclub singer a role in his latest film, but all he really wants to do is bed her She knows, but accepts anyway Meanwhile, a patron at the club gets a note saying that shell soon get another note, a

A young college student falls under the influence of a murderous gambler

A nightclub singer refuses to date customers, so shes framed for the murder of her aunt, convicted of the killing and sent to prison

A young light skinned Negress struggles to find her place in both the black and the white worlds

A black Harvard graduate confronts racism

Musical numbers and comedy routines

A black night watchman at a chemical factory finds the body of a murdered white woman After he reports it, he finds himself accused of the murder

An undercover government agent on a case in Mississipi meets and falls in love with a beautiful young woman whos being menaced by a local crime boss He rescues the girl, and they leave Mississippi and head to Harlem, but their t