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Birthright
A Harvard man comes home to build a school.
A Black Harvard graduate returns to his small Tennessee hometown hoping to found a school, and runs into racism from white townspeople and distrust from his own community. The surviving print lacks its first two reels.
Directed by Oscar Micheaux · Starring Carman Newsome · Alec Lovejoy · Ethel Moses
Content note: Racial slurs, dialect caricature and depictions of Southern racism.
Why this film is free to watch
It is in the public domain in the United States: its copyright was never renewed or it was published without a copyright notice, so it belongs to everyone. Haukley streams it in the U.S. only.
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