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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Language
English
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"[An] exhaustively detailed account of the life of Madam C.J. Walker." Booklist, Starred Review
Madam C. J. Walker—reputed to be America's first self-made woman millionaire—has long been celebrated for her rags-to-riches story. Born to former slaves in the Louisiana Delta in the aftermath of the Civil War, married at fourteen, and widowed at twenty, Walker spent the first decades of her life as a laundress, laboring in
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Rowman & Littlefield, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"In this new biography, distinguished historian Paul Harvey examines Martin Luther King's life through his complex, emerging religious lives. Harvey introduces many readers, perhaps for the first or only time, to the King of diverse religious and intellectual influences, of an increasingly radical cast of thought, and of a m©♭lange of intellectual influences that he aligned in becoming the spokesperson for the most important social movement of...