该片是由奥斯卡·米绍执导的剧情片,于1920年上映，主要讲述了:Abandoned by her .fiancé., an educate.d negro woman with a sho.cking past dedicates hersel.f to helping a .near b.ankrupt scho.ol for. impoverished negro youths.. Within Our Gates was creat.ed in response to .The. Birth of a Nation. which depicted southern. white.s in need of. the Ku Klux Klan to pro.tect them from blood thirst.y blacks. Miche.aux sh.ows the real.ity of. Dixie racism in 1920, wher.e a black man could be lync.hed for being in t.he .wrong place at the. wrong time.