Center Stage: African American Women in Silent Race Films
600 State Dr., Los Angeles, CA 90037
Wednesday, June 28 at 8:30 AM 5:00 PM
Ends Oct 15, 2017
Produced for American audiences between 1910 and 1950, these motion pictures were commonly called race films. CAAM will screen several rarely seen examples, including Oscar Micheaux's Within Our Gates (1920) and The Symbol of the Unconquered (1920), extant clips from Lincoln Picture Company's By Right of Birth (1921, dir. Harry Grant), The Scar of Shame (1929), The Blood of Jesus (1941, dir. Spencer Williams), and others. Each film features women protagonists and captures the spirit of entrepreneurship and African American upliftment characteristic of race films from this era.
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