In his later years, Micheaux added an “ e ” to his last name.

In season five, Vaughn's birth name was revealed to be André Micheaux.

Still from the 1919 Oscar Micheaux film Within Our Gates featuring actress Evelyn Preer

He drew from the style and diction used by Micheaux in his novels and in the intertitles for Body and Soul, his only silent film to survive with the original intertitles.

Micheaux worked many different jobs, moving from the stockyards to the steel mills.

Micheaux contacted wealthy white connections from his earlier career as a porter, and sold stock for his company at $ 75 to $ 100 a share.

Micheaux hired actors and actresses and decided to premiere as Chicago was celebrating the return of troops from World War I.

The film and Micheaux received high praise from film critics.

Micheaux was forced to re-edit the film twice before the commission approved the film, which was reduced from nine to five reels.

Still taken from the 1919 Oscar Micheaux film " Within Our Gates ".

Within Our Gates ( 1920 ) is a silent film by the director Oscar Micheaux that portrays the contemporary racial situation in the United States during the early twentieth century, the years of Jim Crow, the revival of the Ku Klux Klan, the Great Migration of blacks to cities of the North and Midwest, and the emergence of the " New Negro ".

Produced, written and directed by Oscar Micheaux, it is the oldest known surviving film made by an African-American director.

Within Our Gates was initially rejected by the Board of Censors in Chicago when Micheaux submitted the film in December 1919.

* Oscar Micheaux, author, film director

* Body and Soul ( 1925 film ), the best-known silent film of pioneer African-American filmmaker Oscar B. Micheaux

( film ), a 1938 American film directed by Oscar Micheaux

* 1926, The Conjure Woman ( film version by Oscar Micheaux was entitled The Spider's Web )

* 1927, The House Behind the Cedars ( film version by Oscar Micheaux was entitled The Millionaire )

* The Conjure Woman ( film version by Oscar Micheaux )

* The House Behind the Cedars ( film version by Oscar Micheaux )

Oscar Devereaux Micheaux ( January 2, 1884 – March 25, 1951 ) was an American author, film director and independent producer of more than 44 films.

After Johnson offered to make The Homesteader into a new feature film, negotiations and paperwork became contentious between him and Micheaux.

Micheaux wanted to be directly involved in the adaptation of his book as a movie, but Johnson resisted and never produced the film.

Instead, Micheaux founded the Micheaux Film and Book Company of Sioux City and Chicago ; its first project was the production of The Homesteader as a feature film.

Micheaux had a major career as a film producer and director: he produced over 40 films, which drew audiences throughout the US as well as internationally.

The Homesteader became widely known as Micheaux ’ s breakout film ; it helped him become widely known as a writer and a filmmaker.

Micheaux ’ s first novel The Conquest was adapted to film and re-titled, The Homesteader.

** Oscar Micheaux, African-American filmmaker ( b. 1884 )

Green believes that Micheaux had seen that blacks had fought back in Chicago, and chose the title with an allusion to the risk to whites in future racial violence.

Within Our Gates was the second of more than forty films directed by Micheaux.

On a limited budget, Micheaux had to use borrowed costumes and props.

Micheaux constructed Within Our Gates to educate his audience about racism, uplift, peonage, women's rights, and the urban " new Negro " emerging after the Great Migration.

Critics ( such as Jane Gaines, Ronald Green, and Pearl Bowser and Louise Spence ) celebrated the skill with which Micheaux intercut the lynching of the Landry family with the attempted rape of Sylvia by Gridlestone.

Micheaux portrayed the more frequent sexual assaults of black women by white men, alluding to the widespread historical practice of white men taking advantage of black women slaves.

Green notes that Micheaux intended the links between the films, and cast Ladd in part for her physical resemblance to Gish.

Micheaux recognized the complexity of African-American life.

* Alice B. Russell ( 1892 – 1984 ) – singer and actress married to Oscar Micheaux.

In 1939, Julian was the producer for the motion picture Lying Lips, directed by Oscar Micheaux.

* Oscar Micheaux releases The Homesteader, starring pioneering African-American actress Evelyn Preer, becoming the first African-American to produce and direct a motion picture.

* Oscar Micheaux – The Case of Mrs. Wingate

Two of his books were adapted as silent films in 1926 and 1927 by the director and producer Oscar Micheaux.

Micheaux was born on a farm in Metropolis, Illinois on January 2, 1884 He was the fifth child born to Calvin S. and Belle Michaux, who had a total of thirteen.

Micheaux was born when African Americans were trying to succeed in a world dominated by whites.