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

by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

Book Overview

"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.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1541514912
• ISBN13: 9781541514911
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Carolrhoda Lab (R)
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.9" x 9.9"
• Age Range: 12 to 18 years
• Grade Range: Grade 7 to Postsecondary