Oscar Micheaux's 'Within Our Gates' Depicts Lynching as Response to Birth of a Nation

Oscar Micheaux's film 'Within Our Gates' (1920), the oldest surviving film by a Black director, depicted the lynching of a Black farmer and his family in response to D.W. Griffith's 'Birth of a Nation' (1915). The film was censored in Chicago and several other cities by white censorship boards who claimed it would incite riots. It is one of the earliest examples of Black filmmakers using cinema as a tool of counter-narrative against white supremacist media.