Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored: Tie In Edition

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140244778 ISBN 13: 9780140244779

Publisher: Penguin Books, 1995

"A bittersweet story about love, community, and family—and the difference they made in the life of one young man."—The New York Times Book Review.

Book Description:

A touching autobiography of a black man and his family in a small Mississippi town during the 1940s and 1950s. (Best Books for Senior High Readers)

About the Author:

Clifton Taulbert is the author of three memoirs: Once Upon A Time When We Were Colored, the basis for the critically acclaimed feature film by the same name; The Last Train North, Watching Our Crops Come In, and most recently, Little Cliff and the Porch People. He was the recipient of the 27th annual NAACP Image Award for Literature, and was also one of the first African-American writers to win the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Nonfiction.

Time magazine named him one of America's outstanding black entrepreneurs. He is an acclaimed speaker who lectures around the world to schools, educators, businesses, and professional groups on the subject of the Eight Habits of the Heart.