Una Mulzac

Una 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] 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.

[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.

[5] A year after to returning to Harlem from British Guiana, Mulzac opened the Liberation Bookstore in 1967.