The Black Bookseller & Bookstore
"Over the years, owners of black bookstores became the keepers of black culture and continued to maintain their shops as an expression of pride, history, and cultural identify..." - from The Encyclopedia of African American Popular Culture, "Books and Bibliophiles" by Dr. Jesse Carney Smith
- Schomburg Clipping File, 1925-1974 Book Stores clippings [Microfiche]
National Memorial African Bookstore, pamphlet cover
Manuscripts and Archives
- Helen Elizabeth Brown letters, 1943-1971 (bulk 1943-1944)Helen Brown, secretary at the National Memorial African Bookstore in Harlem, is also featured in the novel "No Crystal Stair" which is listed under "Books."
Photographs and Prints
Sound Recordings
- Hatch-Billops collection: interviews of educational, historical, and political personalities
Includes interview with bookseller Lewis Michaux, owner of National Memorial African Bookstore in Harlem.
Videos
The Black power mixtape 1967-1975 : a documentary in 9 chapters by Call Number: Sc Visual DVD-258ISBN: 0788614436Publication Date: 2011Features interview with bookseller Lewis Michaux, owner of the National Memorial African Bookstore in Harlem.
Books
David Ruggles: a radical black abolitionist and the Underground Railroad in New York City by Call Number: Sc E 10-161ISBN: 9780807833261Publication Date: 2010-03-15The first known black bookseller in the U.S., David Ruggles (1810-1849), was a fierce abolitionist who used books to help further the anti-slavery cause. He operated his bookstore in New York until it was destroyed by a mob in 1835.
Young's Book Exchange, New York*Call Number: *ZH-IAG p.v. 124, no. 12Priced catalogue of books pertaining to Negroes, 1918
*Available at SASB
No crystal stair: A documentary novel of the life and work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem bookseller by Call Number: Sc F 12-12ISBN: 9780761387275Publication Date: 2012-01-02The book Itch: freedom, truth & Harlem's greatest bookstore by
Call Number: Sc +F 16-202ISBN: 9780761339434Publication Date: 2015-11-01
From head shops to whole foods by Call Number: R-SIBL HD2785 .D33 Small Business CentralISBN: 9780231171588Publication Date: 2017-08-08
Urban literacies: Critical perspectives on language, learning, and community by Call Number: Sc E 13-1053ISBN: 9780807751824Publication Date: 2011-03-11- PanAfrican sites of resistance : black bookstores and the struggle to re-present black identity by Call Number: Sc D 02-1165Thesis (Ph. D.)--UCLA, 1995
Clippings Files
Links to the Schomburg Clippings Files (Part I and Part II) will direct users to the clipping file indexes. The images are examples of clippings found under the particular index headings, while links to Part 3 clippings are directed to the individual catalog record. The Schomburg Clipping Files can be accessed onsite by consulting with a librarian within the Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division.
Bookstores: clippings. [Print]Call Number: Sc VF: Part 3
- Hue-Man Bookstore & cafe : clippings.Call Number: Sc VF: Part 3