Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored

Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored
Author Clifton Taulbert
Country United States
Language English
Genre Memoir
Published 1989

Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored is a memoir by Clifton Taulbert, first published in 1989. 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 1995 movie starring Phylicia Rashad, Richard Roundtree, Isaac Hayes, and Al Freeman, Jr.[1]

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