Editing Within Our Gates (section)

==Preservation==
After being presumed lost for decades, the film was found when a single print, titled ''La Negra'' (''The Black Woman''), was discovered in 1979 Spain by film historian [[Thomas Cripps (film historian)|Thomas Cripps]].<ref name="el pais"/><ref name=holloway>Holloway, David, and John Beck, ''American Visual Cultures''. 2005, p. 60.</ref><ref name=m229>Mellencamp, Patricia. ''A Fine Romance--Five Ages of Film Feminism''. 1995, pp. 229-30</ref> A brief sequence in the middle of the film was lost. Only four of the original English intertitles survived, the rest having been replaced with Spanish intertitles when acquired by the [[Filmoteca Española]] for [[Spanish peseta|Pts]] 4,000 in 1956.<ref name="el pais">{{cite web |last1=Fernández-Santos |first1=Elsa |title=La única copia de la película afroamericana más antigua se encontraba en España escondida como 'La negra' |trans-title=The only print of the oldest african american film was hidden in Spain as ‘La negra’|url=https://elpais.com/cultura/2021-11-09/la-unica-copia-de-la-pelicula-afroamericana-mas-antigua-se-encontraba-en-espana-escondida-como-la-negra.html |website=[[El País]] |access-date=31 January 2024 |language=es |date=9 November 2021|location=Madrid|issn=1134-6582}}</ref>

In 1993, the [[Library of Congress]] Motion Picture Conservation Center restored the film as closely as possible to the original.<ref name=holloway /> Scott Simmon translated the Spanish titles back into English, removed explanatory material added for Spanish audiences, and drew from the style and diction used by Micheaux in his novels and in the intertitles for ''Body and Soul'', his only silent film to survive with the original intertitles.<ref>Notes included with ''The Library of Congress Video Collection'' (Washington, DC: 1993).</ref> The missing sequence was summarized with an intertitle frame.