Click her for video: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/TheFutureofth
This 1996 video from C-Span Book TV’s archives brought back great memories. At the time, I was deputy bureau chief of ABC News’s Washington Bureau. Skip and Cornel had stopped by the building to meet with Ted Koppel, then anchor of Nightline.
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.
Title: Baltimore-The Winner’s Summit
Location: Baltimore Marriott Inner Harbor at Camden Yards 110 S. Eutaw, Baltimore, MD
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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
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
Descendants of Accomplished African Americans discuss their ancestors
Title:
“Let Your Motto Be Resistance” Symposium
Location: DuSable Museum 740 East 56th Place Chicago, IL 773-947-0600
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Description: A symposium featuring A’Lelia Bundles (Madam C. J. Walker and A’Lelia Walker family), Michelle Duster (Ida B. Wells family), Charlene Drew Jarvis (Dr. Charles Drew family) and Arthur McFarlane (W. E. B. DuBois family) discuss their ancestors contributions to entrepreneurship, medicine, intellectualism and activism in America.
Start Time: 5:30 p.m.
Date: 2011-02-18
End Time: 8:30 p.m.
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