Lewis H. Michaux, Our Greatest Bookseller,1932 – 1974 (Video)

03/17/201803/17/2018

Harlem bookseller and civil rights activist Lewis H. Michaux, 1895–1976. Harlem’s Troy Johnson founder of AALBC.com called Michaux “our Greatest Bookseller.” VIDEO “Dr. Harry Delany is a renowned Harlem born and raised surgeon, the son of the great jurist and civil rights leader, Hubert Delany….” This monthly post is made in partnership with Harlem Cultural Archives.

Liberation Bookstore Owner in Harlem Una Mulzac Passes

02/04/201208/27/2015

In the 1980s and ’90s, the New York City Department of Sanitation gave Una Mulzac as many as 50 summonses — she did not count them because she had no intention of paying them — for refusing to sweep 18 inches into the street in front of her bookstore. VIDEO “Dr. Harry Delany is a…