Clifton L Taulbert

Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored

Tulsa: Council Oak, 1989. Hardcover. Small 8vo., 153 pp. Later printing. Black and white photographs throughout. African American businessman's memoir of growing up in Mississippi before moving to Oklahoma. 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. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Item #1116202406

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