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Portrait of film director Oscar Micheaux

An image from the film Gone with the Wind the most well known portrayal of the mammy stereotype.

A screenshot of the film with the main character who musically performs in blackface.

Theatrical release poster for The Birth of a Nation.

Abandoned by her fiancé, an educated Black woman with a mysterious past works at a nearly bankrupt school for impoverished Black students.