Edna Lewis Thomas
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Edna Lewis Thomas was an American stage actress whose career began in New York City during the Harlem Renaissance. She appeared on Broadway, with the Lafayette Players theater company, and in producti
Thomas as Lady Macbeth, 1936
Thomas as Lady Macbeth, April 1936
Thomas in A Streetcar Named Desire, 1948
Madam C. J. Walker
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Madam C. J. Walker, Mrs. Charles Joseph Walker upon her third marriage, was an American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and political and social activist. Walker is recorded as the first woman to become
Edna Lewis Thomas
…Thomas was born in Virginia and raised in Boston. After moving to New York around 1916, she worked as a social secretary for the beauty entrepreneur Madam C. J. Walker. Though she was married to Lloyd Thomas, she started a long-term romantic relationship with British socialite Olivia Wyndham around 1930 and the three…
Walker c. 1914
C. J. Walker Manufacturing Company, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1911
Walker's home at 67 Broadway in Irvington, New York
The grave of Madam C. J. Walker