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    A'Lelia Bundles.
    Summary: Bundles, a journalist and great-great-granddaughter of Madam C.J. Walker, offers a lively portrait of an American businesswoman. Walker, the first freeborn child of slaves, rose from poverty to establish a successful hair-care business, became one of the wealthiest women in the U.S., and devoted herself to a life of activism and philanthropy toward race and women's issues. photo insert.

    Contents:
    Biological ancestors of Fairy Mae Bryant
    Descendants of Owen Breedlove, Sr.
    Prologue
    Freedom baby
    Motherless child
    Wife, mother, widow
    St. Louis woman
    Answered prayers
    World's fair
    Westward
    On the road
    Bold moves
    "The salvation of your boys and girls"
    "I promoted myself ..."
    Breaking ties, making ties
    Sweet satisfaction
    New horizons
    Black metropolis
    Southern tour
    "We should protest"
    War abroad, war at home
    Her dream of dreams
    Global visions
    "I want to live to help my race"
    A'Lelia Walker: an afterword
    Epilogue
    Endnotes
    Selected bibliography
    Permissions
    Acknowledgments
    Index.
    Print Access Request
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    DCORE (Downstairs)
    2020
    HD9970.5.C672 W3533 2020
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