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The Notorious Elinor Lee
Norman Haywood
Gangsters use a woman to get to a boxer and convince him to throw a big fight.
Lying Lips
Benjamin Hadnot
A nightclub singer refuses to "date" customers, so she's framed for the murder of her aunt.
Swing!
Ted Gregory
Ted Gregory is trying to be the first black producer to mount a show on Broadway, but he has trouble with his star singer.
Birthright
Peter Siner
A black Harvard graduate faces racism and discrimination after returning to his small Tennessee hometown, where he hopes to develop a school similar to Tuskegee Institute or Hampton Institute, both historically black colleges.
God's Step Children
Adult Jimmie
Naomi, a light-skinned Black child, is abandoned by her mother and raised by the virtuous Mrs. Saunders. When the girl's fixation with whiteness turns her against her own race, she is sent to a convent. Hopelessly in love with her adoptive brother Jimmie, Naomi consents to marry his friend, but is repulsed by his darker skin and unrefined ways.
Birthright
Birthright is a 1924 film by Oscar Micheaux in 10 reels, adapted from Thomas Sigismund Stribling's novel of the same title (1922).