伊芙琳·普雷尔 / Flo Clements / 詹姆斯·D·鲁芬 / Jack Chenault / 威廉·史密斯 / Charles D. / Lucas / 奥斯卡·米绍
Abandoned by her fiancé, an educated negro woman with a shocking past dedicates herself to helping a near bankrupt school for impoverished negro youths. Within Our Gates was created in response to The Birth of a Nation which depicted southern whites in need of the Ku Klux Klan to protect them from blood thirsty blacks. Micheaux shows the reality of Dixie racism in 1920, where a black man could be lynched for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
