04956cam a2201213 4500 545432646 TxAuBib 20211104120000.0 ||||||s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781467768078 1467768073 B006R9L48A Amazon 7e94a0cf-12df-4bc0-96c1-16b9ac701001 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1908015 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Nelson, Vaunda Micheaux. No Crystal Stair [Libby] : A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem Bookseller. Lerner Publishing Group, 2014. politics. racism. Great Depression. muhammad ali. black literature. African American intellectuals. African American Literature. Black history. 1900s. Business. Diversity. Bookstores. Black culture. prejudice. Harlem. Equal Rights. Malcolm X. Frederick Douglass. Equality. Religion. Young adult fiction. families. african american history. 20th Century. Communities. Entrepreneurship. Langston Hughes. ancestors. biographies. multicultural. discrimination. United States History. Martin Luther King Jr. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Civil Rights movement. Social Issues. ethnicity. new york city. Writers. Authors. Social Justice. Juvenile Fiction. Biographical . African American culture. civil rights era. marcus garvey. Social Themes. famous people. african american biography. booksellers. diverse books. african american writers. Elijah Muhammad. own voices. family histories. #ownvoices. cultural traditions. Heroes and Leaders. John Henry Michaux. global black history. Documentary Novels. Coretta Scott King Author Honor. Bettie Michaux. Blanche Michaux. National Memorial African Bookstore. No Crystal Stair. Norris Michaux. african american political figures. Mary Eliza Michaux. Willie Ann Tabron-Allen. Kwame Nkruman. Lewis Michaux Jr. Lightfoot Solomon Michaux. Vaunda Micheaux Nelson. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 3992kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Young Adult Fiction. Young Adult Literature. HTML:<p>"You can't walk straight on a crooked line. You do you'll break your leg. How can you walk straight in a crooked system?"</p> <p>Lewis Michaux was born to do things his own way. When a white banker told him to sell fried chicken, not books, because "Negroes don't read," Lewis took five books and one hundred dollars and built a bookstore. It soon became the intellectual center of Harlem, a refuge for everyone from Muhammad Ali to Malcolm X.</p> <p>In <i>No Crystal Stair</i>, Coretta Scott King Award-winning author Vaunda Micheaux Nelson combines meticulous research with a storyteller's flair to document the life and times of her great-uncle Lewis Michaux, an extraordinary literacy pioneer of the Civil Rights era.</p> <p>"My life was no crystal stair, far from it. But I'm taking my leave with some pride. It tickles me to know that those folks who said I could never sell books to black people are eating crow. I'd say my seeds grew pretty damn well. And not just the book business. It's the more important business of moving our people forward that has real meaning."</p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-01-03 20:00:02. Christie, R. Gregory. https://samples.overdrive.com/no-crystal-stair-7e94a0?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/no-crystal-stair-7e94a0?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/no-crystal-stair-7e94a0?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)