A Giant of His Race
Cast & Crew
Ben Strasser
Mr. Billopps
Miss Young
Mabel Holmes
Walter Holeby
Walter Long
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Synopsis
Munga, a faithful and optimistic African enslaved in the New World, dies of old age and leaves behind a son who had been brought with him from Africa and who bears his name. The young man, taking the name of Covington, works his way through medical school, and upon graduating, devotes his life to racial uplift. Sometime later, an epidemic known as the "yellow plague" is decimating the members of the black community where he has established a thriving practice. Covington spends hours in his laboratory trying to find a cure for the plague, and finally, when a young woman teacher offers herself as a subject for his experiments, he finds the cure and is awarded $100,000 for his discovery. Having saved his race from the horrible epidemic, Covington and the teacher fall in love and then marry.
Director
Ben Strasser
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Notes
The North State Film Corp. was located in Winston-Salem, NC. In an article in Billboard, African-American actor and director Leigh Whipper called this film the best Negro picture he had seen. The film had a pre-release show in Winston-Salem on August 30, 1921.
