Una Mulzac
Una G. Mulzac (April 19, 1923 – January 21, 2012) was an African American bookseller and founder of the Liberation Bookstore, a prominent African-American bookstore specializing in political and Black Power materials and was located in Harlem.[1][2]
Personal life
[edit | edit source]Una Mulzac was born in Baltimore, but raised in Brooklyn, New York.[3] Her father, Hugh Mulzac, was a socialist and the first black commander of a ship in the United States Merchant Marine.[1] She grew up in Bedford–Stuyvesant, where she graduated from Girls' High School. Mulzac briefly worked as a secretary for Random House.[2][3] In 1963, Mulzac moved to British Guiana, where she joined the People's Progressive Party and ran their bookstore in the capital of Georgetown.[2][3] She was injured in a bomb attack at the Progressive Book Store.[2] Mulzac was on the executive board of the Harlem chapter of the NAACP.[4] Her grand nephew is Sharrif Simmons, a poet and songwriter.[5]
Liberation Bookstore
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A year after to returning to Harlem from British Guiana, Mulzac opened the Liberation Bookstore in 1967.[1] The Liberation Bookstore has been compared to Lewis Michaux's African National Memorial Bookstore.[1]
Notes
[edit | edit source]- ^ a b c d Douglas Martin, "Una Mulzac, Bookseller With Passion for Black Politics, Dies at 88", New York Times, February 4, 2012.
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Further reading
[edit | edit source]- Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, Harlem Is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America, Little Brown, 2011, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..
External links
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- Jacob McKean, "Last Chapter Draws Near at Mainstay Harlem Bookstore", Columbia Spectator, October 31, 2003.
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- 1923 births
- 2012 deaths
- American booksellers
- American people of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines descent
- American people of Jamaican descent
- Businesspeople from Baltimore
- Businesspeople from New York City
- 20th-century American businesspeople
- Girls' High School (Brooklyn) alumni
- People from Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn
- 20th-century American businesswomen
- 20th-century African-American women
- 21st-century African-American people
- 21st-century African-American women
- 20th-century African-American businesspeople