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A'Lelia Perry Bundles (A'Lelia Bundles)

2025-02-09 04:20:10 -

We live in a culture where European beauty standards are dominant.

We live in a culture where European beauty standards are dominant.

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A'Lelia Perry Bundles (A'Lelia Bundles)

2025-02-09 04:20:10 -

I've found that once people are introduced to Madam Walker's story, they are inspired but also perplexed about why she was omitted from their history lessons.

I've found that once people are introduced to Madam Walker's story, they are inspired but also perplexed about why she was omitted from their history lessons.

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A'Lelia Perry Bundles (A'Lelia Bundles)

2025-02-09 04:20:10 -

We all draw inspiration from women whose names make the headlines and whose stories are in the history books, but often our greatest inspiration comes from our mothers, grandmothers, aunts, teachers, and friends.

We all draw inspiration from women whose names make the headlines and whose stories are in the history books, but often our greatest inspiration comes from our mothers, grandmothers, aunts, teachers, and friends.

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A'Lelia Perry Bundles (A'Lelia Bundles)

2025-02-09 04:20:10 -

My mother was the fourth generation of women to have worked with the Walker company. As a little girl, I would go to her office while she worked. She was a very capable woman. A'Leli

My mother was the fourth generation of women to have worked with the Walker company. As a little girl, I would go to her office while she worked. She was a very capable woman. A'Leli

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A'Lelia Perry Bundles (A'Lelia Bundles)

2025-02-09 04:20:10 -

For more than three years, I'd been part of a complex and frustrating dance as my nonfiction, fact-based material was translated from book to movie by scriptwriters whose visions, goals and sensibilities often were quite different from mine.

For more than three years, I'd been part of a complex and frustrating dance as my nonfiction, fact-based material was translated from book to movie by scriptwriters whose visions, goals and sensibilities often were quite different from mine.

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A'Lelia Perry Bundles (A'Lelia Bundles)

2025-02-09 04:20:10 -

There are literally hundreds of stories about women of color that haven't been told that are amazing, fantastic, better than anything else.

There are literally hundreds of stories about women of color that haven't been told that are amazing, fantastic, better than anything else.

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A'Lelia Perry Bundles (A'Lelia Bundles)

2025-02-09 04:20:10 -

We didn't sit around the dining table talking about Madam Walker, but the silverware that we used every day had her monogram on it and our china for special occasions had been Madam Walker's china... and the baby grand piano on which I learned to read music had been in A'Lelia Walker's apartment in Harlem during the Harlem Renaissance.

We didn't sit around the dining table talking about Madam Walker, but the silverware that we used every day had her monogram on it and our china for special occasions had been Madam Walker's china... and the baby grand piano on which I learned to read music had been in A'Lelia Walker's apartment in Harlem during the Harlem Renaissance.

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A'Lelia Perry Bundles (A'Lelia Bundles)

2025-02-09 04:20:10 -

What grows from our head is something that we should love. The larger society can love it or not, but it's not their decision to make.

What grows from our head is something that we should love. The larger society can love it or not, but it's not their decision to make.

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A'Lelia Perry Bundles (A'Lelia Bundles)

2025-02-09 04:20:10 -

Madam Walker's name gets thrown out as either the savior of black women's hair or she's the evil devil.

Madam Walker's name gets thrown out as either the savior of black women's hair or she's the evil devil.

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A'Lelia Perry Bundles (A'Lelia Bundles)

2025-02-09 04:20:10 -

There are two national historic landmarks: the Madam Walker Legacy Center in Indianapolis and the Madam C.J. Walker House in Irvington, New York.

There are two national historic landmarks: the Madam Walker Legacy Center in Indianapolis and the Madam C.J. Walker House in Irvington, New York.

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