Ethel Moses

A young light-skinned black girl struggles to find her place in both the black and the white worlds.

A Black Harvard graduate returns to his rural Tennessee hometown where a racist banker capitalizes on his plan to open an industrial training school.

Cohen Film Collection introduces this classic short staring Cab Calloway. Cab plays a ladies’ man who dates the wife of a train porter who is frequently absent from home. In addition to this tongue-in-cheek plot, Cab Calloway and His Orchestra perform “Harlem Camp Meeting,” and Calloway has two vocals, “Zaz-zuh-zaz” and “The Lady with the Fan.”

A graduate from an all-Black Southern university moves to Chicago to look for work and gets swept into the criminal enterprise of a murderous gambler.