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No Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem Bookseller

a documentary novel of the life and work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem bookseller

written by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson, illustrated by R. Gregory Christie

188 pages · 2012

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Told by a banker that he should sell fried chicken rather than books, since "Negroes don't read", Lewis Michaux defies the odds to build Harlem's National Memorial African Bookstore, an intellectual center and gathering place from 1939 to 1975.

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