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Wichita Art Museum to celebrate Micheaux
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WICHITA — Wichita Art Museum will celebrate filmmaker Oscar Micheaux with an event at 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 25.While celebrating Kansas native Gordon Parks, WAM partners with Tallgrass Film Association to present films by and about Micheaux (1884-1951), best selling novelist and the first major, African American feature filmmaker. Given the racism of his times, Micheaux’s courage and accomplishments are extraordinary, including being the first black film director to have his films screened in “white” movie theaters. The 2014 bio-pic “Czar of Black Hollywood” narrates Micheaux’s exceptional career.It will be followed by Micheaux’s digitally remastered and groundbreaking 1925 silent film “Body and Soul,” starring the charismatic Paul Robeson in his motion-picture debut.