Alelia walker childrens books

The New Yorker (March 19, )

Bundles&#;s great-great-grandmother Madam C. J. Walker founded a cosmetics empire in the early nineteen-hundreds.

Born in to former slaves on a Louisiana plantation, Walker was working as a laundress in St. Louis in the eighteen-nineties when she began losing her hair. First, she developed the scalp ointments that would make her rich; then she established a network of black women to use and sell the products, who went on to escape poverty as she had.

After years of contributing to black charities and anti-lynching campaigns, she died in her Westchester mansion, not far from the Rockefeller estate. The author&#;s extensive research and unemphatic style encourage readers to find their own relation to this exemplary American figure.

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The New York Times (April 1, )

Walker&#;s biographer and great-great granddaughter, A&#;Lelia Bundles, does not overestimate he