Birthright (1939)
Genres: Drama
Cast: Carman Newsome
Birthright is a 1938 American drama film directed, co-produced and co-written by Oscar Micheaux. Carman Newsome stars as a black Harvard graduate facing racism and discrimination after he returns to his small hometown in Tennessee, where he hoped to develop a school similar to Tuskegee Institute or Hampton Institute, both historically black colleges.