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Veiled Aristocrats
A brother who passed for white comes home.
A light-skinned lawyer who has lived for years as a white man returns home and urges his sister to leave the man she loves and pass for white too. The surviving 44-minute portion of the film.
Directed by Oscar Micheaux · Starring Lorenzo Tucker · Laura Bowman · Lucille Lewis · Carl Mahon
Content note: Colorism and themes of passing for white.
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.
Learn more about it on Wikipedia.
