Birthright is currently streaming on The Criterion Channel

Birthright (1938)73 minDramaRating 47/100

A Black Harvard graduate returns to his rural Tennessee hometown where a racist banker capitalizes on his plan to open an industrial training school.

Cast: Carman Newsome, Ethel Moses, Alec Lovejoy, Hazel Diaz, Trixie Smith, W. Herbert Jelley, Ida Forsyne

Director: Oscar Micheaux