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 ...

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 ...

OSCAR MICHEAUX – Black Male ... Head of Lincoln Motion Pictures, a smooth businessman. Doubles as other characters as cast include the Reverend McCracken, Oscar’s contentious former father ...