half-forgotten yet indomitable African-American film pioneer Oscar Micheaux. At a time when blacks lived severely restricted lives in Jim Crow America (Micheaux died broke in 1951 at age 67), this ...

Among the discoveries for us hitherto unschooled were pictures by the writer and director Oscar Micheaux, who loomed large across this segregated segment of film history and whose influence ...

SYNOPSIS: The Oscar Micheaux Project (working title) is an original jazz musical inspired by the life and work of Oscar Micheaux (1884–1951) as well as other historic events. In 1915 ...

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The Micheaux Film Festival was launched in 2918 by Braham and Courtney L. Branch to honor the legendary Oscar Micheaux, the first major Black filmmaker in the United States. Born in 1884 ...

At a time when blacks lived severely restricted lives in Jim Crow America, the ambitious Micheaux managed, against incredible odds, to pump out up to four features a year between 1919 and 1940, ...

The Oscar Micheaux Project (working title) is an original jazz musical inspired by the life and work of Oscar Micheaux (1884–1951) as well as other historic events. In 1915, Black homesteader ...

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