On Her Own Ground by Bundles

On Her Own Ground by Bundles

On Her Own Ground is the first and only full-scale biography of "one of the great success stories of American history" (The Philadelphia Inquirer), Madam C.J. Walker--the legendary African American entrepreneur and philanthropist--by her great-great-granddaughter, A'Lelia Bundles.

The daughter of formerly enslaved parents, Sarah Breedlove--who would become known as Madam C. J. Walker--was orphaned at seven, married at fourteen, and widowed at twenty. She spent the better part of the next two decades laboring as a washerwoman for $1.50 a week. Then--with the discovery of a revolutionary hair care formula for black women--everything changed. By her death in 1919, Walker managed to overcome astonishing odds: building a storied beauty empire from the ground up, amassing wealth unprecedented among black women, and devoting her life to philanthropy and social activism. Along the way, she formed friendships with great early-twentieth-century political figures such as Ida B. Wells, Mary McLeod Bethune, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Booker T. Washington.

Director of talent development at ABC News is A'Lelia Bundles, an award-winning network television news producer and former ABC News Washington deputy bureau chief. She has written numerous essays, articles, and encyclopedia pages about Madam C.J., her great-great-grandmother. Madam C.J. Walker's biography for young adults, Madam C.J. Walker's biography for young adults, Madam C.J. Walker's biography for Walker: Entrepreneur, which earned an American Book Award, is a book about a businessman. She is a resident of Alexandria, Virginia. Visit MadamCJWalker.com to learn more about her.

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ISBN 13	9780743431729
ISBN 10	0743431723
Title	On Her Own Ground
Author	Bundles
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Simon & Schuster
Year published	2002-01-01
Number of pages	416
Prizes	Short-listed for Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award (Nonfiction) 2002
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