I saw a short movie on his life. If I can find it, I will link it.

I seem to recall, when I first got into the business, some film school having a grant for black filmmakers in his name. Or maybe there was a Micheaux film society? I don't know much about him though.

"Micheaux used his power as a filmmaker to tackle race issues, dispel stereotypes."

And here we are today. 2008. Everything this man worked for has been undone by such movies as Baby Boy, Norbit, and all the other movies that I typically dogg on this site.

In the American war for Independence,
A black man was one of the first martyrs of the patriot cause. Crispus Attucks, a runaway slave, some 20 years before, died in the Boston Massacre in 1770. witnesses said Attucks hit a British officer with a large piece of firewood, grabbed a bayonet and urged the crowd (mainly Whites) to attack just before the British fired. Attucks and two others were killed while eight were wounded, two mortally.