No Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux
Author: Nelson, Vaunda Micheaux
ISBN: 9781541514911
Publisher: Walker Books Australia
Year First Published: 2018
Pages: 192
Dimensions: 254mm x 178mm x
Format: Paperback / softback
Description:
This is an intimate biography of an important but underappreciated figure in black history.
"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?"
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. In No Crystal Stair, 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.
ISBN: 9781541514911
Publisher: Walker Books Australia
Year First Published: 2018
Pages: 192
Dimensions: 254mm x 178mm x
Format: Paperback / softback
Description:
This is an intimate biography of an important but underappreciated figure in black history.
"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?"
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. In No Crystal Stair, 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.
