Una Mulzac

Una Mulzac (April 19, 1923 – January 21, 2012) was an American bookseller and founder of the Liberation Bookstore, which specialized in political and Black Power materials and was located in Harlem.^[1]

Life

Mulzac was born in Baltimore, daughter to Hugh Mulzac, a socialist and the first black commander of a ship in the United States merchant marine. She grew up in Bedford Stuyvesant, where she graduated from Girls' High School.

In 1963, Mulzac moved to British Guiana; after fighting for revolution, she was injured in a bomb attack. ^[2]

In 1966, she moved to Harlem; in 1967, she opened Liberation Bookstore.^[1] Mulzac was on the executive board of the Harlem chapter of the NAACP.^[3]

Her grand nephew is Sharrif Simmons, a poet and songwriter.^[4]

Sources

• Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, Harlem Is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America, Little Brown, 2011, ISBN 978-0-316-01723-7.

Notes

1. Douglas Martin, "Una Mulzac, Bookseller With Passion for Black Politics, Dies at 88", New York Times, February 5, 2012.
2. https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=A7-hzOuI2KQC&dat=19640719&printsec=frontpage&hl=en
3. The Crisis. Mar 1958. Retrieved February 5, 2012.
4. "interview". WBHM.

External links

• Slutsky, Irina. "Barnes & Noble Says No to Harlem USA". Columbia University. Retrieved February 5, 2012.
• Douglas, Laura (October–November 2000). "Save Harlem's Liberation Bookstore!". The Multiracial Activist. Retrieved February 5, 2012.
• Jacob McKean, "Last Chapter Draws Near at Mainstay Harlem Bookstore", Columbia Spectator, October 31, 2003.
• "Liberation Bookstore Inventory for Purchase -- Immediate Response Appreciated". Now Rise Books. August 9, 2010. Retrieved February 5, 2012.