BookA'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.
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HD9970.5.C672 W3533 2020
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