The Symbol of the Unconquered at the Mayme Clayton Library
Screening of rare early cinema clips followed by Oscar Micheaux’s full length film, The Symbol of the Unconquered (1920), with silent film musician Cliff Retallick on the Baldwin organ, supplemented with lectures by Galen Wilkes, ragtime music historian, and Les Wills, film historian. A light-skinned black woman (Hall) settles the homestead she’s inherited from her grandfather … [Read more…]