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God's Step Children

Release Date:January 1, 1938

Running Time:70 min

Genres:Drama

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Cast

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

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Synopsis

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.

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