Birthright (1924 film)

Birthright is a 1924 silent film by American director Oscar Micheaux.

Produced in 10 reels, it is adapted from Thomas Sigismund Stribling's novel of the same title (1922).

[1] The film explores experiences of a young African-American man who returns to a small Tennessee town after getting a college degree.

Of mixed-race (called mulatto in the book), he struggles against the systemic racial discrimination of his society around the First World War.

Micheaux later rewrote the adaptation, and co-produced and directed a new 35 mm version of Birthright as a talkie, in 1938.