No Crystal Stair by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

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No Crystal Stair by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

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No Crystal Stair by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

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 Awardwinning 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.

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.

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ISBN 13 9780761361695
ISBN 10 0761361693
Titel No Crystal Stair
Autor Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
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Verlag Lerner Publishing Group
Erscheinungsjahr 2016-06-01
Seitenanzahl 208
Preise Winner of Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards (Fiction) 2012, Winner of New Mexico Book Awards (Best of) 2012, Winner of New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards (Young Adult) 2012, Winner of New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards (Best Book) 2012, Commended for Coretta Scott King Award (Author) 2013, Commended for Tayshas Reading 2013, Commended for Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens (Fourteen and Up) 2013, Commended for Moonbeam Children's Book Award (Y/A Fic-Hist/Cultural) 2012, Short-listed for Volunteer State Book Awards (High School) 2014
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