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    I came across Oscar Micheaux in some articles and it continues to surprise me how much is right in front of me once a I am introduced to a subject.  The Library of Congress is rich with his resources and one of his earliest preserved films, Within Our Gates, is available to view in its entirety on the Library's site.  It is also one of the Watch Films on the Library's National Film Registry.

    CBS News, in celebration of African American History Month, ran a piece, How Oscar Micheaux paved the way for generations of Black Filmmakers.  The opening visuals are from (and credited to) the Library of Congress.

    An excellent Micheaux biography appears on the NAACP site as does an examination of the filmmaker the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Film Studies professor Wheeler Winston Dixon who examines the artist's work.

    One can listen to Micheaux's books, The Homesteader, and The conquest: the story of a negro pioneer on the Library's archives.

    The movie, Body and Soul, with Paul Robeson, can be viewed in its entirety online.

    Micheaux figures prominently in the Library's archives, and a search within Chronicling America will yield additional treasures.

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