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January 12th

1 event recorded on The Ledger.

  1. 1920
    The Rise

    Within Our Gates released

    Oscar Micheaux's Within Our Gates premieres at the Vendome Theatre in Chicago, a direct cinematic reply to The Birth of a Nation. Censors cut the lynching sequence in several cities. For decades the film is presumed lost until a single Spanish-subtitled print surfaces in Madrid in 1979.

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