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No crystal stair / by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson ; illustrated by R. Gregory Christie.
Van Pelt Library Z478.6.N5 N45 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nelson, Vaunda Micheaux.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bookstores--New York (State)--New York--Juvenile literature.
- Bookstores.
- African Americans--Books and reading--Juvenile literature.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Books and reading.
- Intellectual life.
- Michaux, Lewis H., 1885-1976--Juvenile literature.
- Michaux, Lewis H.
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Intellectual life--20th century--Juvenile literature.
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.).
- Michaux, Lewis H., 1885-1976.
- New York (State)--New York.
- New York (State)--New York--Harlem.
- Genre:
- Juvenile works.
- Physical Description:
- 188 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : Carolrhoda Lab, ©2012.
- Summary:
- Combines meticulous research with a storyteller's flair to document the life and times of Lewis Michaux, a literacy pioneer of the Civil Rights era who 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780761361695
- 0761361693
- OCLC:
- 781558886
- Publisher Number:
- 99990724895
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