Oscar Micheaux

Author and screenwriter who wrote the novel, The Conquest, which he later adapted into the screenplay for The Homesteader, a silent film. His other films, which focus on the lives of black Americans, include Within Our Gates (1920) and The Conjure Woman (1926).Some of his earliest work was published by The Chicago Defender.His novel, The Homesteader, was dedicated to Booker T. Washington.

He worked as a waiter in Chicago in his late teens. Later, after working for a major railroad company for a time, he became a homesteader in South Dakota.

His father was born into slavery in Kentucky, and Micheaux and his twelve siblings grew up on a farm in Metropolis, Illinois. He later married Orlean McCracken.

Novelist Oscar Micheaux were born on Wednesday, in a leap year, birthstone is Garnet, the seaon was Winter in the Chinese year of , it is 364 days until Oscar Micheaux next birthday.

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