"On toda?s Dakota Midday, host Paul Guggenheimer speaks with Patrick McGilligan, author of a new book called OSCAR MICHEAU: OSCAR MICHEAUX: THE GREAT AND ONLY, THE LIFE OF AMERIC?S FIRST BLACK FILMMAKER McGilligan calls his subject†the Jackie Robinson of American fil?&a Muhammad Ali decades before his time."" Micheaux was also a renowned author and homesteader in Gregory, after moving to South Dakota from Illinois.