FEATURES & DETAILS:
- Copyright: 1992
- Color
- MARC records, Catalog Card Kit and Single Main Entry Cards are available
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PRODUCT SUMMARY
(1867-1919) Entrepreneur Madam C.J. Walker was America's first black self-made millionaire. Born Sarah Breedlove, her parents died when she was only seven, and she lost her first husband before she was 20. Left to support herself and her young daughter, she worked as a washerwoman and a cook, and she began developing a mixture for hair repair. She married C.J. Walker and began to market the product under her new name. With her success and money came prominence in the black community. Madam Walker believed in giving back to her community. She employed many blacks, especially women, and donated much time and money to black causes and institutions. Madam Walker was proof that success could be achieved by anyone who was willing to work hard for it. Part of the Black Americans of Achievement Video Collection that celebrates the most influential African Americans in history.
EDITORIAL REVIEWS
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...uniformly excellent...handsomely packaged, this outstanding series is highly recommended and an Editor's Choice." - Video Librarian"...a 'must buy' for any school or public library."- School Library Journal
"...these are important, informative programs that will motivate and inspire viewers to think about what can be done to affect today's crises in the black community." - Library Journal
"...a useful resource for a wide range of history classes."- Booklist
"...well-conceived and executed...students will thoroughly enjoy these videographic renditions of historically significant figures; but the greater value of these works is the cultural, historical, and socio-political context in which the characters are revealed..."- Multicultural Review
FULL REVIEWS
Video Librarian
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"Adapted from Chelsea House Publisher's book series, these 12 videos profiling the lives and times of some of our country's greatest individuals are superbly produced and informed by the commentary of professors from Princeton, Howard, and Rutgers universities. We watched four of the titles: Thurgood Marshall, Colin Powell, Sojourner Truth, and Madam C.J. Walker. Each of the programs offered excellent archival footage and photographs, interviews with historians and family members and/or descendants, and music from the period while painting a lively portrait of the individual subject and his/her achievements. Thurgood Marshall, renowned as the first black Supreme Court Justice, was perhaps the single most important figure in the struggle for equal education rights for black Americans. Colin Powell, an overnight celebrity due to the Persian Gulf War, is both the youngest person and the first black to become the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (one of the most powerful positions vis-a-vis foreign policy in the nation). Powell has offered hope, as one interviewee puts it, that there is no glass ceiling when it comes to advancement of minorities. Sojourner Truth was born into slavery at the close of the 18th century (and left it, of her own accord), and became an ardent spokeswoman for the rights of black Americans, the rights of women, and, incidentally, the Lord. And Madam C.J. Walker built an empire in the late 19th-century founded on hair products, and became the first black woman millionaire in America. Uniformly excellent, these four volumes, are accompanied by eight more: George Washington Carver, Frederick Douglass, Jesse Jackson, Martin Luther King, Jr., Jackie Robinson, Harriet Tubman, Booker T. Washington, and Malcolm X . Handsomely packaged, this outstanding series is highly recommended and an Editor's Choice.