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Oscar Micheaux: The Great and Only: The Life of America's First Black Filmmaker (1st Edition) by Patrick Mcgilligan, Oscar Micheaux Paperback, 432 Pages, Published 2008 ISBN-10: 0-06-073140-0 / 0060731400 ISBN-13: 978-0-06-073140-3 / 9780060731403 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 |