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The author shares his memories of the Black community in Glen Allan, Mississippi during the last years of segregation
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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)
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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.
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- PublisherCouncil Oak Books
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0933031343
- ISBN 13 9780933031340
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages153
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Book Description Paperback unmarked tight sharp. Condition: Very Good+. African American businessman's memoir of growing up in Mississippi before moving to Oklahoma.153 illustrated by photographs pages. Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored is a memoir by Clifton Taulbert, first published in 1989. Taulbert writes about his life experiences from his childhood in a small Mississippi town during the segregated 1950s to his emigration North in 1962 at the age of 17. The book won Taulbert a Pulitzer Prize nomination and was later made into a 1996 movie starring Phylicia Rashad, Richard Roundtree, Isaac Hayes, and Al Freeman, Jr. Seller Inventory # 835
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