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Lewis H Michaux (1884/5 - 1976) was a Harlem bookseller, owner of African National Memorial Bookstore in [[Harlem]], [[New York City]], from 1932 to 1974. He was born in [[Newport News]], [[Virginia]]. He was the son of Henry Michaux and Blance Pollard, in 1884 or 1885&mdash;his birthday is uncertain. Michaux had little formal education. Before coming to New York he worked as a pea picker, window washer and deacon in the Philadelphia, church of his brother, Lightfoot Solomon. Michaux died in 1976. Michaux was married to Beattie Kennedy and they had one son. His brother, Solomon Lightfoot Michaux, acted as an advisor for [[President Truman]] and helped to build a housing unit for the poor in, Barbara Youel writes in the New York Times obituary in 1976 [[Washington D.C.]]<ref>Youel, Barbara Kraley (1976) Obituary. New York Times, 27 Aug 1976 (also in American National Biography)</ref>
Lewis H Michaux (1884/5 - 1976) was a Harlem bookseller, owner of African National Memorial Bookstore in [[Harlem]], [[New York City]], from 1932 to 1974. He was born in [[Newport News]], [[Virginia]]. He was the son of Henry Michaux and Blance Pollard, in 1884 or 1885&mdash;his birthday is uncertain. Michaux had little formal education. Before coming to New York he worked as a pea picker, window washer and deacon in the Philadelphia, church of his brother, Lightfoot Solomon. Michaux died in 1976. Michaux was married to Beattie Kennedy and they had one son. His brother, Solomon Lightfoot Michaux, acted as an advisor for [[President Truman]] and helped to build a housing unit for the poor in, Barbara Youel writes in the New York Times obituary in 1976 [[Washington D.C.]]<ref>Youel, Barbara Kraley (1976) Obituary. New York Times, 27 Aug 1976 (also in American National Biography)</ref>

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Lewis H Michaux (1884/5 - 1976) was a Harlem bookseller, owner of African National Memorial Bookstore in Harlem, New York City, from 1932 to 1974. He was born in Newport News, Virginia. He was the son of Henry Michaux and Blance Pollard, in 1884 or 1885—his birthday is uncertain. Michaux had little formal education. Before coming to New York he worked as a pea picker, window washer and deacon in the Philadelphia, church of his brother, Lightfoot Solomon. Michaux died in 1976. Michaux was married to Beattie Kennedy and they had one son. His brother, Solomon Lightfoot Michaux, acted as an advisor for President Truman and helped to build a housing unit for the poor in, Barbara Youel writes in the New York Times obituary in 1976 Washington D.C.[1]

The bookstore was founded by Michaux in 1932 on 7th Avenue and stayed there until 1968 when Michaux was forced to move the store to West 125th Street (on the corner of 7th street) to give space to the State Harlem office building. The bookstore finally closed in 1974 after another row with authorities over its location.[2]

Michaux stimulated a generation of students, intellectuals, writers and artists[3] Michaux called his bookstore ‘House of Common Sense and the Home of Proper Propaganda’. The store became an important reading room of the civil rights movement(see e.g. Nelson's, No Crystal Chair, forthcoming) [4]. While Izzy Young’s Folk Center further south in Greenwich Village became a hang-out during the folk revival of the late 1950s and early 1960s, including the rising Bob Dylan.[5][6][7] The Memorial Bookstore up in Harlem was a rare place for black people and scholars and anyone interested in literature by, or about, African Americans, Africans, Caribbeans and South Americans. In the early 1960s folk and popular music, and the civil rights movement, where inter-related, overlapping and "inspiring the growth and creativity of each other" as historians Izzerman and Kazin write[8]—however it was also a very fractioned and heterogeneous movement.[9]

Michaux's bookstore had over 200,000 texts and was the nation’s largest on its subject.[10] Everyone, white and black, were encouraged to begin home libraries and those who were short of money were allowed to sit down and read.[11]

Michaux was active in the Black nationalism movement from the 1930s to the 1960s and supported Marcus Garvey’s Pan-Africanism.[12]. Harlem had been the headquarters of Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities' League of the World—the largest mass black movement of the times. When it came to religion, Michaux had a sign in the store reading 'Christ is Black', but he also departed from his brother, Lightfoot Solomon's, affiliations with Christianity, saying: "The only lord I know, is the landlord".[13]

References

  1. ^ Youel, Barbara Kraley (1976) Obituary. New York Times, 27 Aug 1976 (also in American National Biography)
  2. ^ Youel, Barbara Kraley (1976) Obituary. New York Times, 27 Aug 1976 (also in American National Bipography)
  3. ^ Black Power Mixtape, the. 1967-1975 – A film by Göran Hugo Olsson (2011). Documentary, Sweden
  4. ^ http://www.netgalley.com/PopupHandler.php?module=catalog&func=galleyTitleDetails&projectid=11299
  5. ^ Scorsese, Martin [Interviews by Jeff Rosen] (2005) No Direction Home. Documentary. USA,
  6. ^ Sony, Høg Hansen, Anders (2011) Time and Transition in Oral and Written Testimonies [unpublished conference paper given at Cultural Studies conference, Linköping University, June 2011]
  7. ^ Høg Hansen, Anders (2012/forthcoming) Bob Dylan. Kærlighed, krig og historie 1961-1967. Copenhagen: Frydenlund
  8. ^ Isserman, M and M Kazin (2008) America Divided. The Civil War of the 1960s. New York: Oxford University Press, p93
  9. ^ e.g. Høg Hansen, 2012
  10. ^ One Man's Black Burden in The Huffington Post Henry-Adams, Michael (2009), Reading Amanda.
  11. ^ Youel, Barbara Kraley (1976) Obituary. New York Times, 27 Aug 1976. Also in American National Biography
  12. ^ Youel, Barbara Kraley (1976) Obituary. New York Times, 27 Aug 1976. Also in American National Biography
  13. ^ Youel, Barbara Kraley (1976) Obituary. New York Times, 27 Aug 1976. Also in American National Biography
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