04962cam a2201213 4500 524698014 TxAuBib 20211105120000.0 ||||||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 eBook] : A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem Bookseller. Lerner Publishing Group, 2014. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 3992kB. National Memorial African Bookstore. african american political figures. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Coretta Scott King Author Honor. African American intellectuals. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. African American Literature. african american biography. Lightfoot Solomon Michaux. african american history. African American culture. african american writers. Willie Ann Tabron-Allen. Vaunda Micheaux Nelson. United States History. Martin Luther King Jr. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Civil Rights movement. global black history. Young adult fiction. cultural traditions. Frederick Douglass. Heroes and Leaders. John Henry Michaux. Documentary Novels. Mary Eliza Michaux. Great Depression. black literature. Entrepreneurship. Juvenile Fiction. civil rights era. family histories. No Crystal Stair. Lewis Michaux Jr. Langston Hughes. Elijah Muhammad. Blanche Michaux. discrimination. Social Justice. Bettie Michaux. Norris Michaux. Black history. Black culture. multicultural. Social Issues. new york city. Biographical . marcus garvey. Social Themes. famous people. diverse books. Kwame Nkruman. muhammad ali. Equal Rights. 20th Century. Communities. biographies. booksellers. Bookstores. own voices. #ownvoices. Diversity. prejudice. Malcolm X. ancestors. ethnicity. politics. Business. Equality. Religion. families. Writers. Authors. racism. Harlem. 1900s. 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>. Young Adult Literature. Young Adult Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. 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)