Doing the research about the women in my family brings many incredibly serendipitous moments. Last fall out of the blue I received a call from a gentleman who had purchased these photos at an auction. My best guess is that they had been left behind in a dresser that once had belonged to my grandmother, Mae Walker Perry. I actually already had all of the photos except one, but (more…)
Madam Walker agents at their 1924 convention
View Part One of the video: HGTV Villa Lewaro
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
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.
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
Link out: Click here
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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