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Madam Walker Theatre Center

Author : A'Lelia Bundles
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439644136
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book Madam Walker Theatre Center written by A'Lelia Bundles and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-10-14 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As they watched construction of the block-long flatiron building brick by brick throughout 1927, African American residents of Indianapolis could scarcely contain their pride. This new headquarters of the Madam C.J. Walker Manufacturing Company, with its terra-cotta trimmed facade, was to be more than corporate offices and a factory for what then was one of America's most successful black businesses. In fact, it was designed as "a city within a city," with an African Art Deco theater, ballroom, restaurant, drugstore, beauty salon, beauty school, and medical offices. Generations of African American families met for Sunday dinner at the Coffee Pot, enjoyed first-run movies and live performances in the Walker Theatre, and hosted dances in the Casino. Today, this National Historic Landmark is an arts center anchoring the Indiana Avenue Cultural District.

On Her Own Ground

Author : A'Lelia Bundles
Publisher : Scribner
ISBN 13 : 0743431723
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book On Her Own Ground written by A'Lelia Bundles and published by Scribner. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soon to be a Netflix series starring Octavia Spencer, On Her Own Ground is the first 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.

All about Madam C. J. Walker

Author : A'Lelia Bundles
Publisher : All about
ISBN 13 : 9781681570938
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book All about Madam C. J. Walker written by A'Lelia Bundles and published by All about. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Madam C. J. Walker was beloved within her community for her philanthropy and establishing the local YMCA, but she couldn't have done that if she wasn't the first female self-made millionaire and one of the most successful African American business owners ever. Born Sarah Breedlove, she was the first person born free in her family. She married Charles Joseph Walker and became known as Madam C. J. Walker, the name she would later use on her haircare products. After talking with her brothers, who were barbers, she realized that African American women didn't know how to properly care for their hair. This inspired her to start her own line of hair care products to do things like reduce dandruff, grow longer hair, smooth hair, or prevent baldness. Her company employed thousands of door-to-door saleswomen from all over the United States and the Caribbean. She supported the African American community by establishing the first YMCA in Indianapolis, funding scholarships for the Tuckegee Institute, and becoming a patron of the Harlem renaissance.

Madam Walker Theatre Center: An Indianapolis Treasure

Author : A'Lelia Bundles
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467110876
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Madam Walker Theatre Center: An Indianapolis Treasure written by A'Lelia Bundles and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As it was being built in 1927, the "new headquarters of the Madam C.J. Walker Manufacturing Company, with its terra-cotta trimmed facade, was to be more than corporate offices and a factory for what then was one of America's most successful black businesses. In fact, it was designed as 'a city within a city, ' with an African Art Deco theater, ballroom, restaurant, drugstore, beauty salon, beauty school, and medical offices ... Today, this National Historic Landmark is an arts center anchoring the Indiana Avenue Cultural District"--Back cover.

I Am a Black Woman

Author : Mari Evans
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book I Am a Black Woman written by Mari Evans and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Borrowed Names

Author : Jeannine Atkins
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429959401
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Borrowed Names written by Jeannine Atkins and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2010-03-11 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a child, Laura Ingalls Wilder traveled across the prairie in a covered wagon. Her daughter, Rose, thought those stories might make a good book, and the two created the beloved Little House series. Sara Breedlove, the daughter of former slaves, wanted everything to be different for her own daughter, A'Lelia. Together they built a million-dollar beauty empire for women of color. Marie Curie became the first person in history to win two Nobel prizes in science. Inspired by her mother, Irène too became a scientist and Nobel prize winner. Borrowed Names is the story of these extraordinary mothers and daughters. Borrowed Names is a 2011 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

Madam C.J. Walker

Author : Alelia Bundles
Publisher : Chelsea House Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780791002513
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Madam C.J. Walker written by Alelia Bundles and published by Chelsea House Pub. This book was released on 1991 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the Afro-American businesswoman whose invention of facial creams and other cosmetics led to great financial success and who, throughout her life, devoted herself to many social and political causes.

Wheaton

Author : Keith Call
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738540351
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Wheaton written by Keith Call and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where will you find C. S. Lewis's wardrobe, J. R. R. Tolkien's desk, Malcolm Muggeridge's typewriter, Madame Blavatsky's tiara, the bones of a hulking mastodon, Billy Graham's traveling pulpit, and Tyndale House, publishers of the best-selling Left Behind series? Where will you find students, mystics, theologians, doctors, authors, actors, and musicians living in harmony? In Wheaton. Located 26 miles west of Chicago, the "All America City" boasts excellent schools, exquisite old homes, safe streets, and fine museums. Though Horace Greeley is credited with uttering the immortal "Go west, young man!" the sentiment had been acted upon much earlier by questing pioneers, many of whom halted in the middle plains, sensing terrific potential in the rich black soil of Illinois. Among these were Warren and Jesse Wheaton and Erastus Gary from Pomfret, Connecticut. Seeking suitable land for farming, they settled and constructed a mill. From there they built cabins and harvested spring crops. Soon there was a village of a few hundred, connected by train to the farthest reaches of the nation. Now there is a city of 55,000 residents.

Madam C.J. Walker

Author : Darlene R. Stille
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 9780756518837
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (188 download)

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Download or read book Madam C.J. Walker written by Darlene R. Stille and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2007 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines Madam Walker who was America's first black female millionaire.

African Americans in Indianapolis

Author : David L. Williams
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253059518
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book African Americans in Indianapolis written by David L. Williams and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indianapolis has long been steeped in important moments in African American history, from businesswoman Madame C. J. Walker's success to the rise of the Ku Klux Klan to the founding of Crispus Attucks High School, which remained segregated through the 1960s. In African Americans in Indianapolis, author and historian David Leander Williams explores this history by examining the daunting and horrendous historical events African Americans living in Indianapolis encountered between 1820 and 1970, as well as the community's determination to overcome these challenges. Revealing many events that have yet to be recorded in history books, textbooks, or literature, Williams chronicles the lives and careers of many influential individuals and the organizations that worked tirelessly to open doors of opportunity to the entire African American community. African Americans in Indianapolis serves as a reminder of the advancements that Black midwestern ancestors made toward freedom and equality, as well as the continual struggle against inequalities that must be overcome.

A Piece of My Heart

Author : Shirley Lauro
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573693335
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book A Piece of My Heart written by Shirley Lauro and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1992 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Suggested by the book [A Piece of my heart, compiled] by Keith Walker."

Black No More

Author : George S. Schuyler
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486147746
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book Black No More written by George S. Schuyler and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-08 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A satirical approach to debunking the myths of white supremacy and racial purity, this 1931 novel recounts the consequences of a mysterious scientific process that transforms black people into whites.

Hoosiers and the American Story

Author : Madison, James H.
Publisher : Indiana Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0871953633
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (719 download)

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Download or read book Hoosiers and the American Story written by Madison, James H. and published by Indiana Historical Society. This book was released on 2014-10 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A supplemental textbook for middle and high school students, Hoosiers and the American Story provides intimate views of individuals and places in Indiana set within themes from American history. During the frontier days when Americans battled with and exiled native peoples from the East, Indiana was on the leading edge of America’s westward expansion. As waves of immigrants swept across the Appalachians and eastern waterways, Indiana became established as both a crossroads and as a vital part of Middle America. Indiana’s stories illuminate the history of American agriculture, wars, industrialization, ethnic conflicts, technological improvements, political battles, transportation networks, economic shifts, social welfare initiatives, and more. In so doing, they elucidate large national issues so that students can relate personally to the ideas and events that comprise American history. At the same time, the stories shed light on what it means to be a Hoosier, today and in the past.

Mirette on the High Wire

Author : Emily Arnold McCully
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0399221301
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Mirette on the High Wire written by Emily Arnold McCully and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1992-10-21 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One day, a mysterious stranger arrives at a boardinghouse of the widow Gateau- a sad-faced stranger, who keeps to himself. When the widow's daughter, Mirette, discovers him crossing the courtyard on air, she begs him to teach her how he does it. But Mirette doesn't know that the stranger was once the Great Bellini- master wire-walker. Or that Bellini has been stopped by a terrible fear. And it is she who must teach him courage once again. Emily Arnold McCully's sweeping watercolor paintings carry the reader over the rooftops of nineteenth-century Paris and into an elegant, beautiful world of acrobats, jugglers, mimes, actors, and one gallant, resourceful little girl.

Dvd Savant

Author : Glenn Erickson
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 0809510987
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Dvd Savant written by Glenn Erickson and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2004-11-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compilation of selected review essays from Erickson's DVD Savant internet column.

Vision of Beauty

Author : Kathryn Lasky
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 9780763602536
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Vision of Beauty written by Kathryn Lasky and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of Sarah Breedlove Walker who, though born in poverty, pioneered in hair and beauty care products for black women, and became a great financial success.

The Whipping Man

Author : Matthew Lopez
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0573697094
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (736 download)

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Download or read book The Whipping Man written by Matthew Lopez and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drama / Characters: 3 male It is April, 1865. The Civil War is over and throughout the south, slaves are being freed, soldiers are returning home and in Jewish homes, the annual celebration of Passover is being celebrated. Into the chaos of war-torn Richmond comes Caleb DeLeon, a young Confederate officer who has been severely wounded. He finds his family's home in ruins and abandoned, save for two former slaves, Simon and John, who wait in the empty house for the family's return. As the three