Tulsa\u27s Black Wall Street

Mississippi author and business consultant Clifton Taulbert discussed the history of Black Wall Street in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Taulbert was chosen by CNN at the turn of the millennium to be one of the voices of community and recognized by the NAACP 27th Annual Image Award for contribution to literature. He was the first African-American to win the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Non-Fiction. This discussion was hosted by the McClean Institute\u27s Catalyzing Entrepreneurship and Economic Development (CEED) initiative via Zoom

The Journey Home: A Father’s Gift to His Son

By Clifton L. Taulbert Council Oak Books (Hardcover, $15.95, ISBN: 157178117X, 10/2002) Clifton Taulbert wanted to give his twenty-year-old son Marshall a present that would carry lasting meaning. But how could he surpass the possessions and experiences Marshall already enjoyed—nice cars, spring break in Cancun? All light years from his own humble childhood in the rural south, recalled in his bestselling memoir, Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored. The gift Taulbert decided to give his son wasn’t the one most twenty-year-olds would immediately appreciate: he would take his son on a journey home to meet the people of rural Glen Allan, Mississippi—neighbors and friends whose insights and kindnesses had nurtured Taulbert through his childhood. This is the tale of a caring father determined to help his affluent son understand some of the meaning of family, community and love.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/mwp_books/1361/thumbnail.jp

Little Cliff and the Porch People

Juvenile Literature by Clifton L. Taulbert, illustrated by E. B. Lewis Dial Books for Young Readers (Hardcover, $15.99, ISBN: 0803721749, 2/1999) In a series of acclaimed memoirs, Clifton Taulbert has told of the nurturing community that raised him within the segregated Mississippi Delta of the 1950\u27s. Now the memorable characters from Eight Habits of the Heart, When We Were Colored, and Taulbert\u27s other popular works appear in his first picture book. Little Cliff\u27s great-grandmother needs a pound of butter to make her candied sweet potatoes. She sends Cliff off to get the butter and tells him to get home lickety-split. But all the front porches Cliff must pass are full today―full of neighbors who want to help him with his errand! This heartwarming story about intergenerational friendship is beautifully illustrated by artist E. B. Lewis\u27s light-filled paintings.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/mwp_books/1186/thumbnail.jp

Little Cliff\u27s First Day of School

By Clifton L. Taulbert, illustrations by E. B. Lewis Dial Books for Young Readers (Hardcover, $16.99, ISBN: 0803725574, 7/2001) (Kindergarten-Grade 2) In this second story about Little Cliff, an African-American boy growing up in the rural South in the 1950s, it is time for his first day of school. His happy and proud great-grandparents have laid out his special clothes, but Cliff does not want to start first grade―not one bit. He is so frightened when it\u27s time to leave that he tries hiding under the house―a favorite refuge from the heat of summer. However, determined Mama Pearl coaxes him out and walks him to school herself. As they near the schoolyard, Cliff sees his friends enjoying a ball game and realizes that school isn\u27t just being quiet, quiet, quiet and work, work, work. He can have fun as well. The lengthy text is appropriately flavored by dialect that is readily accessible to young readers: Mama Pearl chides, Cliff, don\u27t step on my nerves. Now you git them shoes on right now. Lewis\u27s large watercolor paintings of the boy with downcast eyes, bowed head, and slumped shoulders speak volumes about his apprehensions. The country schoolhouse looks run-down and uninviting until it is surrounded by energetic youngsters. Children will recognize in Cliff\u27s reactions their own first-day jitters and will be comforted by the last scene in which a laughing-crying Mama Pearl hugs him and says, I am just so happy we made it to school on our first day. ―Marianne Saccardi, Norwalk Community College, CT. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/mwp_books/1187/thumbnail.jp

Watching Our Crops Come In

Nonfiction by Clifton L. Taulbert (Viking hardcover, $15.95, ISBN: 0670859524, 2/1997; Penguin Paperback,$9.95, ISBN: 0140244344, 2/1998) The author of The Last Train North and the acclaimed memoir and film When We Were Colored now recalls the emerging civil rights era and the ordinary people who changed the South.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/mwp_books/1446/thumbnail.jp

Eight Habits of the Heart: Embracing the Values That Build Strong Families and Communities

Nonfiction by Clifton L. Taulbert Penguin (Paperback, $9.95, ISBN: 0140266763, 1/1999) Clifton L. Taulbert is renowned for his poignant memoirs about growing up in the segregated South and for his lectures and programs in schools, businesses, and communities throughout the world. In this inspiring handbook he lays out eight basic principles he learned from his elders: a nurturing attitude, dependability, responsibility, friendship, brotherhood, high expectations, courage, and hope. With a new Introduction and exercises for reflection and practice, Taulbert shows how the Eight Habits can be utilized today to help strengthen relationships, families, and communities everywhere. This inspirational book stands alongside The Book of Virtues and Seven Habits of Highly Effective Families as a refreshing and meaningful guide to the spiritual core we, as a society, always seem to be seeking.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/mwp_books/1093/thumbnail.jp

Eight Habits of the Heart: The Timeless Values That Build Strong Communities

By Clifton L. Taulbert Viking (Hardcover; $16.95; ISBN: 0670875457, 9/1997)https://egrove.olemiss.edu/mwp_books/1094/thumbnail.jp