Gone Are The Days [a.k.a. Purlie Victorious] (1963)

Starring:

• Ossie Davis 
• Ruby Dee 
• Godfrey Cambridge
• Hilda Haynes 
• Beah Richards

Storyline
A young, idealistic man returns home to the plantation where he grew up in servitude. With him, he brings his fiance, Lutiebelle, in hopes of convincing the plantation owner that she is really his cousin in order to secure the family inheritance. To aid in the comic complications that follow are his family members Missy and Gitlow, and the plantation owners endearing (but ineffectual) son Charlie.

Free, White and 21 (1963)

Starring: 

• Frederick O'Neal 
• Annalena Lund
• George Edgley

Storyline
The central conflict in this film is whether African-American businessman Ernie Jones (played by O'Neal) raped Swedish immigrant and civil rights Freedom Rider Greta Mae Hansen (played by Lund). Jones was the proprietor of the hotel at which Hansen decided to stay during her time in Dallas. The movie is primarily a court room drama, with many of the key events portrayed in flashback sequences as Ernie Jones and Greta Mae Hansen testify.