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A'Lelia Walker was born Lelia McWilliams in Vicksburg, Mississippi, in 1885, the daughter of Moses and Sarah (née Breedlove) McWilliams. Her father died when she was two years old, and she moved with her mother to St. Louis, Missouri to live with her mother's three brothers. [3] Her mother married John Davis in 1894 and divorced in 1903.
Madam C. J. Walker died there in 1919, and the house was inherited by her daughter A'Lelia Walker, who owned it until she herself died in 1931. She left it to the NAACP , but because of the challenges of paying the taxes and general maintenance of the home during the Great Depression, the estate and the NAACP agreed to sell the property and ...
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.
Today, Walker’s descendants, including her great-great-granddaughter A’Lelia Bundles, are continuing their ancestor’s legacy with the recent launch of MADAM by Madam C.J. Walker, a new ...
After Walker's death in 1919 her daughter A'Lelia became president of the company. [10] During her tenure the company built a new headquarters and manufacturing plant in 1927 in Indianapolis. However the Great Depression hurt sales and forced her to sell personal art and antiques to keep the company operating. [11]
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Madam C.J. Walker's great-great-granddaughter, author A’Lelia Bundles, will speak at the Kool Family Community Center at 6 p.m. Feb. 28.
The grave of Madam C. J. Walker. Walker died on May 25, 1919, from kidney failure and complications of hypertension at the age of 51. [8] [24] [28] Walker's remains are interred in Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, New York City. [31] At the time of her death, Walker was considered to be worth between a half million and a million dollars. [32]