''Birthright'' is a 1924 silent film by American director

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. Produced in 10 reels, it is adapted from Thomas Sigismund Stribling's novel of the same title (1922). The film is now lost. The cast included

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(as Peter Siner),

Evelyn Preer Evelyn Preer (née Jarvis; July 26, 1896 – November 17, 1932), was a pioneering American stage and screen actress and jazz and blues singer of the 1910s through the early 1930s. Preer was known within the black community as "The First Lady of ...

(as Cissie Deldine),

Salem Tutt Whitney Salem Tutt Whitney ( Salem Tutt; 15 November 1875 – 12 February 1934) and J. Homer Tutt ( Jacob Homer Tutt; 31 January 1882 – 10 February 1951), known collectively as the Tutt Brothers, were American vaudeville producers, writers, and performe ...

(as Tump Pack),

Lawrence Chenault Lawrence Chenault (November 23, 1877 – December 27, 1943)Wintz, Cary D. and Paul Finkelman. Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance. Ebook, Taylor & Francis group. 2004 was an American vaudeville performer and silent film actor. He appeared in ...

, and W. B. F. Crowell. 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 Birthright is the concept of things being due to a person upon or by fact of their birth, or due to the order of their birth. These may include rights of citizenship based on the place where the person was born or the citizenship of their paren ...

'' as a talkie, in 1938. It had a new cast. He filmed it in New Jersey.

Cast

as Peter Siner *

as Cissie Deldine *

as Tump Pack *

References

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* * 1924 films Films directed by Oscar Micheaux American silent feature films American black-and-white films Race films 1924 drama films 1920s American films {{1920s-silent-drama-film-stub