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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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Thank you, 
Neme Alperstein
, for providing excellent resources on Oscar Micheaux and giving valuable insight into the work of of a noted American author, film director and independent producer.
Oscar Micheaux is also highlighted by the National Park Service as an African-American homesteader.
Images from the Oscar Micheaux Homestead Case are available here through the NPS site.
The images of the Homestead Case are fascinating and this addition adds to the mystery of the man. I am intrigued by the word "Rosebud" on the page. The documents refer to a Rosebud series (a parcel of land?). The use of the word brings to mind the opening scene of the Orson Welles movie Citizen Kane? A coincidence? You have opened up a whole new aspect of Micheaux. Thank you, 
Margaret Lincoln
for always enhancing and broadening my posts. New questions to answer!
This is the biography account I was looking for - and from CNET!
This account just begs for a script and a movie option. What a story filled with tragedy, perseverance, pathos and talent, ...and Micheaux died a pauper. He is described as an iconoclast and a maverick, which he certainly was by this account. There is even an explanation of Rosebud and an indigenous tribe. The photo of Spike Lee holding up a 2010 Micheaux stamp dedication is extraordinary.
Richard Trenholm in London is the author of this article and given how primary sources and culture intersect with multimedia, he's an author to watch.
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