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Micheaux was born near Metropolis, Illinois and grew up in Great Bend, Kansas, one of eleven children of former slaves. As a young boy he shined shoes and worked as a porter on the railway. As a young man, he very successfully homesteaded a farm in an all-white area of South Dakota where he began writing stories. Given the attitudes and restrictions on black people at the time, Micheaux overcame them by forming his own publishing company to buy his books door-to-house. Statue of Superman in the town square The sign outside the Superman Museum Metropolis is a city located in Massac County, Illinois, along the Ohio River. ... Great Bend is the largest city and county seat of Barton County, Kansas, United States. ... Broadly, homesteading is a lifestyle of agrarian self-sufficiency. ... Official language(s) English Capital Pierre Largest city Sioux Falls Area  Ranked 17th  - Total 77,163 sq mi (199,905 km²)  - Width 210 miles (340 km)  - Length 380 miles (610 km)  - % water 1. ...

The advent of the motion picture industry intrigued him as a vehicle to tell his stories. He formed his own movie production company and in 1919 became the first African-American to make a film. He wrote, directed and produced the silent motion picture The Homesteader, starring the pioneering African American actress Evelyn Preer and based on his novel of the same name. He again used autobiographical elements in The Exile, his first feature film with sound, in which the central character leaves Chicago to buy and operate a ranch in South Dakota. In 1924 he introduced the moviegoing world to Paul Robeson in his film, Body and Soul. Evelyn Preer Eveleyn Preer ( July 16, 1896 - November 27, 1932) was a notable pioneering African-American stage and screen actress and accomplished blues singer of the 1910s through the early 1930s. ... Poster for The Exile, Mighty modern all talking epic of Negro life. The Exile was a 1931 American film by Oscar Micheaux. ... Paul Robeson USPS Black Heritage stamp of Paul Robeson. ... There are a number of things named Body and Soul: Body and Soul is the title of a popular song written in 1930 by Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, Frank Eyton and John Green. ...

Given the times, his accomplishments in publishing and film are extraordinary, including being the first African-American to produce a film to be shown in "white" movie theaters. In his motion pictures, he moved away from the "Negro" stereotypes being portrayed in film at the time. Additionally, in his film Within Our Gates, Micheaux attacked the racism depicted in D.W. Griffith's film, The Birth of a Nation. Still from the 1919 Oscar Micheaux film Within Our Gates featuring actress Evelyn Preer Within Our Gates is a 1919 silent film about an African-American who goes North and helps a minister in the Deep South raise money to keep a school for poor Black children open. ... Manifestations Slavery · Racial profiling Hate speech · Hate crime Lynching · Gay bashing Genocide · Holocaust Ethnocide · Ethnic cleansing Pogrom · Race war Religious persecution Movements Discriminatory Aryanism · Neo-Nazism White/Black supremacy Hate groups · Kahanism Anti-discriminatory Abolitionism Womens/Universal suffrage Civil rights · Gay rights Childrens rights · Youth rights Policies Discriminatory... David Lewelyn Wark Griffith (January 22, 1875 - July 23, 1948) was an American film director (commonly known as D. W. Griffith) probably best known for his film The Birth of a Nation. ... The Birth of a Nation is a famously controversial film which promoted the superiority of the white race. ...

The Producers Guild of America called him "The most prolific black - if not most prolific independent - filmmaker in American cinema." Over his illustrious career, Cledisson Micheaux wrote, produced and directed forty-four feature-length films between 1919 and 1948 and wrote seven novels, one of which was a national bestseller. Producers Guild of America (PGA) is a trade organization representing the television and film producers in the United States. ...

Micheaux died in Charlotte, North Carolina while on a business trip. His body was returned to Great Bend, Kansas, where he was interred in the Great Bend cemetery with other members of his family. Nickname: The Queen City, Hornets Nest Location in Mecklenburg County in the state of North Carolina Coordinates: Country United States State North Carolina Counties Mecklenburg County, North Carolina Mayor Pat McCrory, (R) Area    - City 280. ... Great Bend is the largest city and county seat of Barton County, Kansas, United States. ...

In 1986 the Directors Guild of America honored Micheaux with a Golden Jubilee Special Award and today the Oscar Micheaux Award is presented each year by the Producers Guild. DGA Headquarters in Hollywood, California Directors Guild of America (DGA) is the labor union which represents the interests of film and television directors in the United States motion picture industry. ...

For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Oscar Micheaux has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6721 Hollywood Blvd. A band plays on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. ...

There is a 1994 documentary about Micheaux, Midnight Ramble, named after the "Midnight Rambles" in which cinemas would show films at midnight to an African American audience.

Bibliography

• Conquest: The Story of a Negro Pioneer - (1913)
• The Forged Note - (1915)
• The Homesteader - (1917)
• The Wind from Nowhere - (1941)
• The Case of Mrs. Wingate - (1944)
• The Story of Dorothy Stanfield - (1946)
• Masquerade, a Historical Novel - (1947)

Filmography

• 1919
  • The Homesteader
  • Within Our Gates
• 1920
  • The Brute
  • Symbol of the Unconquered
• 1922
  • Gunaslaus Mystery
  • Deceit
  • The Dungeon
  • The Virgin of the Seminole
  • Son of Satan
• 1923
  • Jasper Landry's Will
• 1924
  • Body and Soul
• 1926
  • The Spider's Web
• 1927
  • Millionaire
• 1928
  • When Men Betray
  • Easy Street
• 1929
  • Wages of Sin
• 1930
  • Darktown Revue
• 1931
  • The Exile (1931 film)
• 1932
  • Veiled Aristocrat
  • Black Magic
  • Ten Minutes to Live
• 1933
  • The Girl From Chicago
  • Ten Minutes to Kill
• 1934
  • Harlem After Midnight
• 1935
  • Lem Hawkin's Confession
• 1936
  • Temptation
  • Underworld
• 1937
  • God's Stepchildren
• 1938
  • Swing
• 1939
  • Birthright
  • Lying Lips
• 1940
  • The Notorious Elinor Lee
• 1948
  • Betrayal

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References

Yenser, Thomas (editor), Who's Who in Colored America: A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Living Persons of African Descent in America, Who's Who in Colored America, Brooklyn, New York, 1930-1931-1932 (Third Edition)