United States, Georgia, Bibb County, Macon, 32.84069, -83.6324Micheaux, Swan E., Jr.1925-12-29Letter from Swan E. Micheaux, Jr., brother of African American director Oscar Micheaux and one-time secretary of the Micheaux Film Corporation, to the gentlemen of the Douglass Theatre, dated December 29, 1925, requesting contracts for showing the film The Devil's Disciple. Micheaux asks to receive contracts on the film that were sent some time before and notes that he is enclosing a herald. The Devil's Disciple, released in 1926, starred Evelyn Preer, Lawrence Chenault, Edward Thompson, and Percy Verwayen.Digital image and encoded transcription of an original manuscript, scanned, transcribed and encoded by the Digital Library of Georgia in 2005, as part of Georgia HomePLACE. This project is supported with federal LSTA funds administered by the Institute of Museum and Library Services through the Georgia Public Library Service, a unit of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia.image/jpegtext/htmldbr019http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/Manuscript held by the Middle Georgia Archives, Washington Memorial Library, Charles Henry Douglass, Jr. business records, 1906-1967, box 19, folder 169, document 51.Micheaux Film CorporationAfrican Americans in the motion picture industryAfrican Americans in motion picturesRace in motion picturesRace films--United StatesFeature films--United StatesMotion picture theaters--Georgia--MaconFilm posters--GeorgiaAdvertising--Motion pictures--Georgia--MaconCommercial agents--New YorkDevil's disciple (Motion picture : 1926)Douglass Theatre (Macon, Ga.)Letter: New York, New York to Douglass New Theatre, Macon, Georgia, 1925 Dec. 29Text