The Colored American Winning His Suit (1916)
Genres: Drama
Cast: Thomas M. Mosley, Ida Askins
The Colored American Winning His Suit is a lost 1916 race film, the first production of the Frederick Douglass Film Company. It was written and produced by the Reverend W. S. Smith, pastor of the Monumental Baptist Church of Jersey City, New Jersey, and also a member of the production company. The New York Age hailed it as "the first five-reel Film Drama written, directed, acted and produced by Negroes." Its purpose was to counter anti-African-American films and improve race relations.