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Oscar Micheaux

The Great and Only

Oscar Micheaux( )
Author: McGilligan, Patrick
ISBN:978-0-06-175431-9
Publication Date:Sep 2008
Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint:HarperCollins e-books
Book Format:Ebook
List Price:USD $13.95
Book Description:

Oscar Micheaux was the Jackie Robinson of film, the black D. W. Griffith-a bigger-than-life American folk hero whose important life story has been nearly forgotten today. The son of freed slaves, he roamed America as a Pullman porter before making his first mark as a homesteader in South Dakota-and going on from there to become the king of the "race cinema" industry, producing and/or directing nearly forty films during a time of Jim Crow segregation when African-American artists were...
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