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 1920, where a black man could be lynched for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.冯少君没有说话，伸手轻轻抚着沈祐的头和脸。过了许久，沈祐的声音闷闷地传进耳中：“今日在邱家，听着她在邱明城面前狡辩，看着她可鄙的模样，我深深憎恶自己身上来自她的一半血液。”