THE S PIR IT OF BLA C K WOM EN

P R E S E N T E D B Y

A’LELIA B U N D L E S

D E PA R T M E N T O F T H E T R E A S U R Y

F E B R U A R Y 1 6 , 2 0 1 2

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Black History Month African American Women

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Judith Jamison Director Emeritus

Alvin Ailey

The Spirit of African American

Women

Black History Month 2012

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First Lady Michelle Obama 1964 -

1985

Michelle Robinson graduates from Princeton

1988

Michelle Robinson graduates from Harvard Law School

1992

Michelle Robinson marries Barack Obama

2009

Michelle Obama becomes First Lady of the United States

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Viola Davis SAG Award Winner

Oscar Nominee

Viola Davis

1965 Born in South Carolina

2001 Tony Award- “King

Hedley II”

2008 Academy Award

Nomination – “Doubt”

2010 Tony Award Best

Actress- “Fences”

2012 Screen Actors Guild

Award – “The Help”

2012 Academy Award

Nomination – “The Help”

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Elegant Equestrian

Black women

are not predictable…

cannot be stereotyped

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Spelman College Students

1862

First black woman college graduate Jane Patterson Oberlin

1881

Spelman College founded

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Azie Taylor Morton

1936 - 2003

36th Treasurer of the U.S.

1977 - 1981

DEPARMENT OF THE TREASURY

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Blanche K. Bruce

1841 – 1898

Register of the Treasury

1881–1885 and 1897-1898

AFRICAN AMERICANS AT TREASURY

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Judson W. Lyons

1860 – 1924

Register of the Treasury

1898 – 1906

AFRICAN AMERICANS AT TREASURY

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William Tecumseh Vernon

1871 - 1944

Register of the Treasury

1906 – 1911

AFRICAN AMERICANS AT TREASURY

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James C. Napier

1845 - 1940

Register of the Treasury

1911 – 1913

AFRICAN AMERICANS AT TREASURY

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Ursula Burns CEO Xerox

1958 -

Marie Johns Former CEO Verizon DE

Deputy Director, SBA

1951 -

BUSINESS

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Maggie Lena Walker Bank President

1864 - 1934

Carla Harris Investment Banker

1963

FINANCE/BANKING

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Mildred Hemmon Carter First licensed black women pilot in Alabama

Rejected from the WASPS

19 21-2011

General Marcelite Harris First Black Woman General USAF

1943 -

AVIATION/MILITARY

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Bessie Coleman

1892 - 1926

Mae Jemison

1956 -

AVIATION

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Shirley Ann Jackson

Physicist/Chair Nuclear Reg Comm

1946 -

Vicky Bailey Former FERC Commissioner

1952 -

ENERGY

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Susie King Taylor Nurse and Teacher

1848-1912

Helene Gayle

CEO of CARE

HEALTH CARE

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Charlotta Bass Publisher California Eagle

1874-1969

Gwen Ifill Moderator “Week in Review”

1956 -

JOURNALISM

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Mary McLeod Bethune President, Bethune Cookman College

1875 - 1975

Ruth Simmons President. Brown University

1945 -

EDUCATION

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Patricia Roberts Harris Ambassador/Cabinet Sec’y

1924 - 1985

Susan Rice U.S. Ambassador to the UN

1964 -

DIPLOMACY

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Constance Baker Motley Federal Judge

1921 - 2005

Deborah Batts Federal Judge

1947 -

JUDICIARY

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Barbara Jordan Congresswoman, Texas

1936 - 1996

Kamala Harris Attorney General California

1964

ELECTED OFFICIALS

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Ida B. Wells

1862 -1931

Melissa Harris-Perry

1973 -

POLITICAL ACTIVISTS

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Althea Gibson Wimbledon 1957

1927 - 2003

Venus & Serena Williams Wimbledon

2000, 2002 etc

SPORTS

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Lorraine Hansberry 1930 - 1965

Lynn Nottage 1964 -

THEATRE

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Gwendolyn Brooks

1917 - 2000

Toni Morrison

1931 -

LITERATURE/PULITZER PRIZE

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Sissieretta Jones

1869 - 1933

Denyce Graves

1964 -

OPERA

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Aida Overton Walker Dancer/Choreographer

1880 - 1914

Judith Jamison Dancer/Choreographer

1943

DANCE/CHOREOGRAPHY

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Madam C. J. Walker

1867 - 1919

Titi and Miko Branch

Founders, Miss Jessie’s

ENTREPRENEURS

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Birthplace of Sarah Breedlove Delta, Louisiana 1867

1867

Sarah Breedlove is born

1881

Marries Moses McWilliams

1885

Daughter Lelia is born

1888

McWilliams Dies

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Villa Lewaro 1924 Walker Agents Convention

MADAM WALKER’S MANSION

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Madam Walker’s Early Advertisement Photos

1888-1905

Sarah Breedlove McWilliams moves to St.

Louis

Works as a washerwoman

Discovers hair care formula

1906 Moves to Denver

Founds company

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Madam Walker’s Original Products

Madam Walker develops a line of

products

1906 - 1908

Travels throughout the United States

1908

Moves to Pittsburgh

Founds Lelia College of Beauty Culture

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Madam Walker 1908 Madam Walker 1909

PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION

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Madam Walker with her Ohio agents

1908 – 1918

Developing a business

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Madam Walker in Indianapolis 1912

1910

Madam Walker Moves to

Indianapolis

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Madam Walker with Booker T. Washington 1913 YMCA Dedication Indianapolis, Indiana

Philanthropist

$1000 YMCA

$5000 NAACP

$5000

Daytona Normal Institute

$95,000 Bequests

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136th Street Home

Madam Walker

School of Beauty Culture

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HARLEM

Walker Beauty Culturists Convention Philadelphia | August 1917

INSTITUTION BUILDER

AND

POLITICAL ACTIVIST

Madam Walker organized her agents

into state and local clubs in preparation for her first national

Walker Beauty Culturists

Convention in August 1917

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Madam C. J. Walker Stamp On Her Own Ground:

The Life and Times of Madam Walker

LEAVING A LEGACY

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Villa Lewaro

Irvington-on-Hudson, NY

Madam Walker Theatre Center

Indianapolis, IN

LEAVING A LEGACY

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Madam C. J. Walker Giving Herself a Start!

MADAM WALKER’S SECRET TO SUCCESS

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“There is no royal flower strewn path to success…and if there is, I have not found it for whatever success I have attained has been the result of much hard work and many sleepless nights.”

“I got my start by giving myself a start. So don’t sit down and wait for opportunity to come. You have to get up and make it for yourself!!”

On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker

The Association of Black Women Historians’

Best Book on Black Women’s History 2001

A New York Times Notable Book 2001

On Her Own Ground by A’Lelia Bundles

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Madam Walker Websites

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