Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore by Char Adams Pen But one terrible day

But one terrible day

bearing witness to something

an unforgettable cast of characters

and I'm sorry to say

Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore by Char Adams Pen But one terrible dayIn 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.