Micheaux promoted the West as a place where blacks could transcend race and earn economic success through hard work and perseverance .
Moos ( 2002 ) shows that the 1910s to 1940s black filmmaker and novelist Oscar Micheaux incorporated Turner 's frontier thesis into his work .
novelist promoted the West as a place where blacks could transcend race and earn economic success through hard work and perseverance .
Moos ( 2002 ) shows that the 1910s to 1940s black filmmaker and novelist Oscar Micheaux incorporated Turner 's frontier thesis into his work .