Oscar Micheaux: Author, Filmmaker, Entrepreneur
Writer and director Oscar Micheaux was a creative entrepreneur and one of the most important figures in African American cinema during the early twentieth century.
Writer and director Oscar Micheaux was a creative entrepreneur and one of the most important figures in African American cinema during the early twentieth century.
Slavery ended in 1865. But many Black Southerners remained unfree laborers under the convict leasing system.
Without images of African Americans, depictions of important military moments are incomplete.
Known as “The Father of Black History,” Carter Godwin Woodson (1875-1950) co-founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASALH) in 1915
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