With a Crooked Stick-The Films of Oscar Micheaux T. S. Eliot which was first published nearly

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With a Crooked Stick-The Films of Oscar Micheaux T. S. Eliot which was first published nearlyWith a crooked stick, filmmaker Oscar Micheaux (1884 1951) sought to hit a straight lick by stressing the strategic importance of class mobility, or uplift, for African Americans. A theme in all of his more than 40 feature length, black produced, black directed, black cast, and black audience films, uplift would allow for the better things in life: fast cars and fancy clothes, freedom of belief, financial security, and an unencumbered intellectual