Right Worthy Grand Mission: Maggie Lena Walker and the Quest for Black Economic Empowerment

by Gertrude Woodruff Marlowe

Overview

As Right Worth Grand Secretary-Treasurer of the Independent Order of St. Luke, an African American fraternal and cooperative insurance society, Maggie Lena Walker (186?-1934) is credited with single-handedly bringing the organization back from the brink of insolvency by biographer Marlowe (a former anthropology professor at Howard U.). Walker, who became the wealthiest African American women known through her founding and steering of the first Black-owned bank, is also lauded as one of the great African American leaders of her time. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780882582108
Publisher:	Howard University Press
Publication date:	10/28/2003
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range:	14 - 18 Years

Table of Contents

	Foreword	ix
	Preface	xiii
	Acknowledgments	xix
	Introduction	xxiii
1	Early Years	1
2	Stepping Up To Leadership	27
3	Voicing A New Vision	54
4	Theory Into Action	79
5	Preserving Gains	108
6	Politics Of Prominence	137
7	Reignited Activism	167
8	A Stately Descent	200
9	Lasting Legacy	236
Appendix A	Independent Order of St. Luke Membership Figures	262
Appendix B	The Will Controversy	268
	Index	272