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 ...