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God's Step Children (1938)
Directed by Oscar Micheaux
Overview
Naomi, a light-skinned Black child, is abandoned by her mother and raised by the virtuous Mrs. Saunders. When the girl’s fixation with whiteness turns her against her own race, she is sent to a convent. Hopelessly in love with her adoptive brother Jimmie, Naomi consents to marry his friend, but is repulsed by his darker skin and unrefined ways.
Length 70 minutes
Actors
Jacqueline Lewis | Ethel Moses | Alice B. Russell | Trixie Smith | Charles Thompson | Carman Newsome | Gloria Press | Alec Lovejoy | Columbus Jackson | Laura Bowman | Sam Patterson | Charles R. Moore | Consuelo Harris | Sammy Gardiner | Leon Gross | Dorothy Van Engle | Cherokee Thornton