Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore by Char Adams Pen bearing witness to something

bearing witness to something

I learned more about myself that year than any other

But when autumn breezes begin to blow

She’ll eventually figure out a way to tell Juniper the truth of their relationship

an unforgettable cast of characters

Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore by Char Adams Pen bearing witness to somethingIn Black Owned, Char Adams celebrates the living history of Black bookstores. Packed with stories of activism, espionage, violence, community, and perseverance, Black Owned starts with the first Black owned bookstore, which an abolitionist opened in New York in 1834, and after the bookshops violent demise, Black book lovers carried on its cause. In the twentieth century, civil rights and Black Power activists started a Black bookstore boom nationwide.