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The Symbol of the Unconquered

1920·59 min·US
Director: Oscar Micheaux
Drama
Pioneers: Oscar Micheaux

Eve Mason, a white-passing black woman, moves to a remote cottage she inherited from her late father. She makes the acquaintance of her neighbor, a dashing black settler named Hugh Van Allen, and quickly falls for him. Trouble brews as the local cadre of racist hucksters want the valuable land Van Allen lives on, and will do anything to take it from him.

Eve Mason, a white-passing black woman, moves to a remote cottage she inherited from her late father. She makes the acquaintance of her neighbor, a dashing black settler named Hugh Van Allen, and quickly falls for him. Trouble brews as the local cadre of racist hucksters want the valuable land Van Allen lives on, and will do anything to take it from him.

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Cast

Iris Hall

Iris Hall

Evon "Eve" Mason

Walker Thompson

Walker Thompson

Hugh Van Allen

Lawrence Chenault

Lawrence Chenault

Jefferson Driscoll

Mattie Wilkes

Mattie Wilkes

Mother Driscoll

Louis Dean

Louis Dean

August Barr

Leigh Whipper

Leigh Whipper

Tugi - an Indian Fakir

J

Jim Burris

E.G. Tatum

E.G. Tatum

Abraham

J

James Burrough

G

George Catlin

Dick Mason

E

Edward Fraction

Peter Kaden (uncredited)

Crew

Oscar Micheaux

writer

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