No Crystal Stair by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

'My life was no crystal stair, far from it. No Crystal Stair, Coretta Scott King Awardwinning author Vaunda Micheaux Nelson combines. It's the more important business of moving our people forward that has real meaning. In No Crystal Stair, Coretta Scott King Award-winning author Vaunda Micheaux Nelson combines meticulous research with a storytellers flair to document the life and times of her great-uncle Lewis Michaux, an extraordinary literacy pioneer of the Civil Rights era. When a white banker told him to sell fried chicken, not books. It tickles me to know that those folks who said I could never sell books to black people are eating crow. 'My life was no crystal stair, far from it. My life was no crystal stair, far from it. In No Crystal Stair, Coretta Scott King Award–winning 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. In No Crystal Stair, Coretta Scott King Award- winning 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.

It soon became the intellectual center of Harlem, a refuge for everyone from Muhammad Ali to Malcolm X. 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. No Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem Bookseller Written by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson, artwork by R. Lewis Michaux was born to do things his own way. How can you walk straight in a crooked system?' 'You can't walk straight on a crooked line. No Crystal Stair by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson Carolrhoda Books, 2012 Hardcover Hardcover Vaunda Micheaux Nelson on.