Wordy Birds: The Fabulous Life and Hair of Madam C.J. Walker
Wordy BirdsWordy Birds: The Fabulous Life and Hair of Madam C.J. Walker
A’lelia Bundles deserves her own biography. She’s a fascinating woman. During her 30-year career in journalism she produced for both ABC and NBC news – and all of their magazine format TV shows. She was ABC News’ deputy bureau chief in Washington and she spent six years producing for ABC’s “World News Tonight with Peter Jennings.” She completed her career as director of talent development for ABC News in DC and New York. Maybe one day her great great granddaughter will write a biography about her.
Liz has invited her to Wordy Birds to talk about the biography she wrote about her great great grandmother called “On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam CJ Walker.”
Madam CJ Walker was born as Sarah Breedlove in 1867. She was the first child in her family to be born free. Both of her parents were slaves. Sarah Breedlove was orphaned at age seven and struggled for almost 30 years to find her place in this world. She began as a washer woman, laundering clothing and linens for white families in St. Louis and selling hair care products door to door on the side. Her life which ended like a dream, changed with a dream and our story begins there, with A’Lelia Bundles explaining Sarah Breedlove’s dream and how one night’s sleep transformed her into Madam CJ Walker, America’s wealthiest woman, black or white and a woman who the Guinness Book of world records cites as the first self-made American woman millionaire
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