p Abandoned by her fiancé, an educated negro woman with a shocking past dedicates herself to helping a near bankrupt school for impoverished negro youths Within Our Gates was created in response to The Birth of a Nation which depicted southern whites in need of the Ku Klux Klan to protect them from blood thirsty blacks Micheaux shows the reality of Dixie racism in 一九二0, where a black man could be lynched for being in the wrong place at the wrong time p