"1900 - 1999" . . "African Americans." . . "Bookstores Juvenile fiction." . . "New York (State)" . . "Harlem (New York, N.Y.)" . . "African Americans History 20th century Juvenile fiction." . . "African American." . . "20th Century." . . "Bookstores." . . "Children's stories." . . "JUVENILE FICTION / General" . . "Carolrhoda Lab." . . . . "JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / United States / 20th Century." . . "Diligence." . . "African Americans Books and reading Fiction." . . "Success Juvenile fiction." . . "Success." . . "Diligence Juvenile fiction." . . "Bookstores New York (N.Y.) Fiction." . . "Electronic books" . "Electronic books"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Fiction"@en . "Fiction" . . "\"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. 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. \"My life was no crystal stair, far from it. But I'm taking my leave with some pride. It tickles me to know that those folks who said I could never sell books to black people are eating crow. I'd say my seeds grew pretty damn well. And not just the book business. It's the more important business of moving our people forward that has real meaning.\""@en . "A documentary novel of the life and work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem bookseller \"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. 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. \"My life was no crystal stair, far from it. But I'm taking my leave with some pride. It tickles me to know that those folks who said I could never sell books to black people are eating crow. I'd say my seeds grew pretty damn well. And not just the book business. It's the more important business of moving our people forward that has real meaning.\""@en . "No crystal stair a documentary novel of the life and work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem bookseller" . . . . "A fictionalized biography of the bookseller and civil rights activist who owned the African National Memorial Bookstore in Harlem, New York City." . . . . . . "Coretta Scott King Award (Author): Honor book" . . . . . "Dust jackets (Bindings)" . "No crystal stair : a documentary novel of the life and work of Lewis Michaus" . . . . . "Bibliography"@en . . . . . . "In this work of historical fiction, Nelson tells the story of a man with a passion for knowledge and of a bookstore whose influence has become legendary." . "No crystal stair : a documentary novel of the life and work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem bookseller" . "No crystal stair : a documentary novel of the life and work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem bookseller"@en . . . "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." . . . "No crystal stair"@en . "History" . . . "History"@en . "No crystal stair" . "No crystal stair a documentary novel of the life and work of lewis michaux, harlem bookseller"@en . . . . "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." . . "Juvenile works" . "Juvenile works"@en . . . . . . . . "African Americans New York (State) New York Juvenile fiction." . .