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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.
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Title
No crystal stair
Call No
FIC NEL
Authors
Nelson, Vaunda Micheaux
Christie, R. Gregory, 1971-
Subjects
Michaux, Lewis H., 1885-1976--Juvenile literature.
Bookstores--New York (State)--New York--Juvenile literature.
African Americans--Books and reading--Juvenile literature.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Intellectual life--20th century--Juvenile literature.
Language
English
Published
Minneapolis : Carolrhoda Lab, c2012.
Publication Desc
188 p. : ill. ;
ISBN
0761361693 (trade hard cover : alk. paper)
LCCN
2011021251
Dimensions
26 cm.