Flashback: Villa Lewaro, Madam Walker’s New York Estate

Madam Walker agents at their 1924 convention

View Part One of the video: HGTV Villa Lewaro

View all five parts.

In celebration of the United Negro College Fund’s 1998 Designer Showhouse at Villa Lewaro, Madam C. J. Walker’s Irvington-on-Hudson, NY estate, HGTV produced this hour documentary. You can learn more about the house at www.madamwalkerestate.com and on urban planner and preservationist Deena Parham’s blog Urban by Design.

You might also find a post about Madam Walker’s May 1919 funeral at Villa Lewaro on our Madam Walker/A’Lelia Walker Family Archives blog of interest.

For more information about Madam Walker, visit www.madamcjwalker.com

On Her Own Ground Book Tour

 

Click here for C-Span Video  On Her Own Ground Book Tour-Detroit 2001

I’m having a great time going through C-Span Book TV’s archives. Hard to believe my book, On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker, is a decade old. Here’s the presentation at the Charles H. Wright Museum in Detroit that launched the book tour. The audience was wonderfully warm and that evening my college classmate, Sandra Jenkins, hosted a gathering at her home with other college friends including Phyllis James, Norma Cassell and Linda Hotchkiss.

Baltimore-The Winner’s Summit

Title: Baltimore-The Winner’s Summit
Location: Baltimore Marriott Inner Harbor at Camden Yards 110 S. Eutaw, Baltimore, MD
Link out: Click here
Description: Entrepreneur Deborah Hardnett presents three day conference featuring A’Lelia Bundles, Linda Clemons, Sheila Brooks, Glinda Bridgforth, LaFern Batie and other successful women entrepreneurs and motivational speakers.
Start Time: 08:00
Date: 2011-03-19
End Time: 15:00

San Francisco-NC100BW Madam Walker Luncheon

Title: San Francisco-NC100BW Madam Walker Luncheon
Location: San Francisco
Description: 12th Annual Bay Area National Coalition of 100 Black Women’s Madam C. J. Walker Luncheon
Start Time: 11:00
Date: 2011-03-04
End Time: 14:00