No Crystal Stair

No Crystal Stair
Author: Mairuth Sarsfield
Publisher: Linda Leith Publishing
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2021-11
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ISBN: 9781773900919


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First published in 1997, No Crystal Stair is an absorbing story of Montreal in the 1940s. Raising her three daughters alone, Marion discovers she can only find gainful employment if she passes as white. Set in Little Burgundy against the backdrop of an exciting cosmopolitan jazz scene--home of Oscar Peterson, Oliver Jones, and Rockhead's Paradise--and the tense years of World War II, No Crystal Stair is both a tender story and an indictment of Canada's "soft" racism. In 2005, No Crystal Stair was nominated for that year's Canada Reads and was defended by Olympic fencer Sherraine MacKay.


No Crystal Stair
Language: en
Pages: 264
Authors: Mairuth Sarsfield
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-11 - Publisher: Linda Leith Publishing

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First published in 1997, No Crystal Stair is an absorbing story of Montreal in the 1940s. Raising her three daughters alone, Marion discovers she can only find
No Crystal Stair
Language: en
Pages: 196
Authors: Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
Categories: Juvenile Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-03 - Publisher: Carolrhoda Lab& 8482

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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.
Don't You Turn Back
Language: en
Pages: 104
Authors: Langston Hughes
Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1969 - Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers

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Forty-five poems chosen from the work of the black poet, Langston Hughes, by Harlem fourth graders.
Life for Me Ain't Been No Crystal Stair
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Susan Sheehan
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994-09-06 - Publisher: National Geographic Books

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On October 7, 1984, Crystal Taylor gave birth to a baby boy whom she named Daquan. Crystal was only fourteen. She was living with a boyfriend whom she was too y
No Crystal Stair
Language: en
Pages: 264
Authors: Lynell George
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992-11-17 - Publisher: Verso

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Contains essays, reports, vignettes, oral histories, and autobiographies examining the daily lives of African Americans in Los Angeles.