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Books on A'lelia Walker
Ben Neihart.
Rough Amusements: The True Story of A'Lelia Walker,
Patroness of the Harlem Renaissance's Down-Low Culture.
2003
Tananarive Due.
The Black Rose: The Dramatic Story of Madam C.J. Walker,
America's First Black Female Millionaire. 2001
A'Lelia Bundles.
On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J.
Walker. 2002
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Forgotten
& Under-Appreciated Black Women
They Kept America Cleaned and Pressed
Businesswoman
Sarah Breedlove Walker (1867-1919)
Registered Nurse
Mary Eliza Mahoney
(1845-1926)
Philanthropist
Oseola McCarty
(1908-1999)
Methodist Evangelist, Missionary, Temperance Reformer
Amanda Berry Smith (1837–1915)
Mother of a Poet
Matilda Jane Dunbar
(d. 1943)
Oscar Winning
Actress
Hattie McDaniel
(1895-1952)
To 'Joy My
Freedom
Vanishing Washerwoman
Washerwomen
Sons & Daughters
Amanda
Smith Autobiography
Washerwomen
in Brooklyn
Washer-Woman Poem
Washerwomen in
Baltimore
John Henrik Clarke
Fifty Influential Figures
| Mother of a
Composer/Musician, Eubie Blake Emily Blake, born a
slave, was the mother of musician, composer,
performer Eubie Blake, whose parents were both freed slaves. His
father worked as a stevedore on the Baltimore docks.
Emily, his mother took in washing to earn a few dollars.
To supplement the family income, Eubie the teenager born
in 1883 in Baltimore, Maryland sneaked out of the
house every night to play piano at a bordello in
Baltimore's tenderloin district. he made more in a night
than his father made in a week.
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Bibliography
Bundles, A'Lelia Perry.
Madam C.J. Walker. New York: Chelsea House
Publishers, 1991.
Due, Tananarive.
The Black Rose: The Magnificent Story of Madam
C.J. Walker, America's First
Black Female Millionaire. New York: Ballantine Publishing Group, 2000.
Eldred, Sheila Mulrooney. "Inventing Dreams: Sarah Breedlove Walker
(18671919)." New Moon, January/February 1998.
Leavitt, Judith A.
American Women Managers and
Administrators. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1985.
Snodgrass, Mary Ellen.
Late Achievers: Famous People Who Succeeded Late in
Life. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1992.
Vare, Ethlie Ann, and Gret Ptacek.
Mothers of Invention from the Bra to the
Bomb: Forgotten Women and Their Unforgettable
Ideas. New York: Morrow, 1988.
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