A'Lelia Walker: A Study
A’Lelia Walker was one of the most interesting figures of the Harlem Renaissance. As a young heiress to a substantial fortune from her mother and first successful Negro entrepreneur, A’Lelia Walker set the stage where all the important figures of the Harlem Renaissance came to play. Walker used her fortune to entertain lavishly during the Harlem Renaissance, and became one of its most beloved and well-known insiders. In more ways than one, she became the bright little center that the rest of the art and literary world crowded around. Walker's circle of friends included poet Langston Hughes, writer Countee Cullen, and music critic, photographer and novelist Carl Van Vechten. She was pivotal in getting black artists and writers “noticed” by the right people, even though she was not one of them.Walker was born Lelia McWilliams on June 6, 1885, in Vicksburg, Mississippi, daughter of Sarah Breedlove and Moses McWilliams. Sarah worked as a washerwoman and raised Lelia alone after McWilliams disappeared. Lelia was no more than eighteen when her mother remarried and changed her name to Madam C. J. Walker. She founded a line of hair-care products in St. Louis, Missouri, apparently inspired by a dream in which a large black man
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