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Her adoptive daughter Fairy Mae Bryant, was born in November 1898 and was adopted in 1912. She was known as "Mae Walker" and traveled with Madam C. J. Walker as a model and assistant. In November 1923, A'Lelia Walker orchestrated an elaborate "Million Dollar Wedding" (actually closer to $40,000) for Mae's marriage to Dr. Gordon Jackson. [11]
Bundles' mother, A'Lelia Mae Perry Bundles (1928–1976), vice president of the Madam C. J. Walker Manufacturing Company and active in local and state Democratic politics, also served as a member of the Washington Township School Board and was a fiscal administrator with the City of Indianapolis.
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His son, Dr. Gordon Henry Jackson (1885-1945) married Mae Walker (nee Fairy Mae Bryant), the adopted daughter of A'Lelia Walker, whose mother was the millionaire hair care entrepreneur Madam C. J. Walker, in New York on November 24, 1923. [7] [1]
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Madam C. J. Walker (born Sarah Breedlove; December 23, 1867 – May 25, 1919) was an American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and political and social activist.She is recorded as the first female self-made millionaire in America in the Guinness Book of World Records. [1]
Annie Minerva Turnbo Malone (August 9, 1877 [2] [3] – May 10, 1957) [4] was an American businesswoman, inventor and philanthropist. [5] [6] In the first three decades of the 20th century, she founded and developed a large and prominent commercial and educational enterprise centered on cosmetics for African-American women.