Oscar Micheaux The Great and Only: The Life of America's First Black Filmmaker by Patrick McGilligan

Oscar Micheaux, the son of freed slaves, was the Jackie Robinson of film, the black D.W. Griffith: a bigger-than-life American folk hero whose important life story is nearly forgotten today. Now, in a feat of historical investigation and vivid storytelling, on of our greatest film biographers takes on one of the most talented and complex figures in the history of American entertainment.

Hardcover
Black & White Images
366 pages
ISBN: 978-0-06-073139-7