

“A story of the negro —and the South”
After graduating from Harvard University, Peter Siner returns to his small Tennessee hometown, where he hopes to start a school for black children.
Directed by Oscar Micheaux
User score
14 votes

Released
January 1, 1938
1h 14m
English

Carman Newsome
Peter Siner

Ethel Moses
Cissie

Alec Lovejoy
Tump Pack

Hazel Diaz
Ida May

Trixie Smith

W. Herbert Jelley

Ida Forsyne
John Ward

C. R. Chase

Alice B. Russell

H. E. Knight

George Lessey

Columbus Jackson
Harry Moses

Tom Dillon
Allen Lee

Robert Alderdice

Cherokee Thornton
The Persimmon

Harry Moses
Dr. Jallup

Leon Gross
Orchestra Leader