Wednesday Morning Group in Bethesda

A’Lelia Bundles returns to WMG to discuss her biography of her charismatic great-grandmother,
Joy Goddess: A’Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance. A‘Lelia Walker, best known as the
only daughter of hair care entrepreneur, Madam C. J. Walker (whom Bundles memorialized
earlier in On Her Own Ground), was a businesswoman and convener in her own right, whose
glamorous soirees were so memorable that poet Langston Hughes dubbed her “the joy goddess
of Harlem’s 1920s.” This illustrated presentation features archival family photographs and stories of the Dark Tower cultural salon where celebrities such as Zora Neale Hurston, Paul Robeson and Alberta Hunter gathered.

Members only event