Within Our Gates

One thing I really liked about this movie was the fact that the biggest heroes were women. Sylvia obviously was the star of the movie, and accomplishes so much. She's comes back from all the traumatic events of her younger life to be this strong amazing woman who goes out and gets money for the school. Any of the men in the school could have gone, but it was her who was the strongest, and wouldn't take no for an answer until she raised the money for the school. Then, the person who ends up donating all the money is a woman as well. This is great because at this time, women, especially African American women had almost no power. The women characters in this movie were great role models for women at this time, showing them that they could accomplish what they dreamed of and that they can change the world for the better. Obviously this is really important to me, being a woman, because movies and role models like this really helped women to become strong enough to demand and aquire women's rights.