Micheaux broke barriers by establishing his own film company, retaining ownership of his work, hiring Black actors and using ...

Micheaux distributed them himself, toting the four or five prints he could afford to the nation’s far-flung black communities, which enthusiastically embraced the only films then being made that ...

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Branch to honor the legendary Oscar Micheaux, the first major Black filmmaker in the United States. Born in 1884, Micheaux directed 44 films throughout his career. Active mainly in the early 20th ...

Oscar Micheaux was America's preeminent black filmmaker for three decades, having directed or produced 22 silent movies and 15 talking pictures.The Czar of Black Hollywood uses archival film ...

OSCAR MICHEAUX – Black Male ... Oscar’s second wife, the driving force behind his later films. Self-possessed, grounded, sense of humor. The majority of the show, the character appears ...

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Micheaux distributed them himself, toting the four or five prints he could afford to the nation’s far-flung black communities, which enthusiastically embraced the only films then being made that ...