Cottman, Ezekiel T.,
Cotton Club (Harlem),
Cotton States and International Exposition (1895),
Court of Calanthe,
Coward, Noël,
Cox, Dr. Charleston,
Cox, Diamond,
Crane and Company,
Crisis, The (NAACP magazine)
Du Bois as editor of,
Jessie Fauset as literary editor of,
first advertisement by Madam Walker in,
Nigger Heaven reviewed in,
obituary of Madam Walker in,
Post Office’s attempted banning of,
Crockett, C. C.,
Cuba,
Cullen, Countee,
“From the Dark Tower,”
Cullen, Frederick A.,
Curris, Alice,
Curris, James Webb,
Curtis, William P.,
Cuticura,
Dailey, Maceo C., Jr.,
Daily Picayune, The,
Dallas (Texas),
Dandruff,
Daniels, Josephus,
Dark Tower, The (Harlem salon),
Davis, Angela,
Davis, Jefferson,
Davis, John H.,
claims against estate by,
Madam Walker’s failure to divorce,
Daytona Normal and Industrial Institute for Negro Girls,
Dean, Jennie,
Death penalty, NACW protest of,
Debs, Eugene,
DeFrantz, F. E.,
Delaney, Emma Bertha,
Delta (Louisiana),
Madam Walker’s return to,
Democratic party, in Louisiana after Civil War,
Denver (Colorado),
blacks in,
general description of,
Madam Walker in,
Madam Walker’s return to,
Shorter Chapel AME Church,
Tabor Grand Opera House,
“ Denver & Rio Grande Railway (D&RG),
Depp, Louis,
Derrick, William B., house of,
Deshay, W. D.,
Des Moines (Iowa),
See also Fort Des Moines
Diagne, Blaise,
Dickens, Charles,
Diseases,
See also Scalp disease
Dismond, Geraldyn (Gerri Major),
Doley, Harold,
Doley, Helena,
Dorsey, Mary Ross,
Double-consciousness of blacks,
Douglas, Aaron,
Douglass, Frederick,
NACW’s purchase of former home of,
Douglass, Joseph,
Draper, Muriel,
Drug stores first black woman to open,
Glossine sold in,
Du Bois, W.E.B.,
in East Saint Louis,
in Jamaica,
Lelia Walker described by,
in NAACP,
Amenia Conference,
Crisis editor,
New York extravaganza staged by,
Nigger Heaven reviewed by,
in NNBL founding,
obituary of Lelia Walker by,
obituary of Madam Walker by,
at Paris Peace Conference,
ragtime and catwalk condemned by,
on return of World War I soldiers,
split between Washington and,
World War I supported by,
See also Niagara Movement
Dumas, Albert,
Dumas, Henry,
Dunbar, Matilda,
Dunbar, Paul Lawrence,
Dunn, Oscar James,
Dvorrák, Antonin,
Dyer, Leonidas,
Dyett, Reverend William,
East Saint Louis (Illinois), race riot at,
protests against,
Eckstein-Norton Institute,
Eczema,
Electrocution, NACW protest of,
Eli Lilly Company,
Emancipation Proclamation,
Enright, Richard,
Erichsen, Sir John E.,
Espionage Act of 1917,
Ethiopia, Lelia Walker in,
Eufaula (Alabama),
Europe, James Reese,
military service of,
murder of,
Evans, Richard,
Ewing, Max,
Exodusters,
Face bleaches,
Fairbanks, Charles W.,
Farmer, William,
Farmers and Citizens Savings Bank,
Fauset, Jessie,
Felt, Lillie Burney,
Fields. B. W.,
15th Infantry Regiment (New York Guard). See 369th Infantry Regiment
Fisher, Carl,
Fisher, Zenobia,
Fisk University,
Fitzgerald, F. Scott,
Fletcher, Stoughton,
Fletcher American Bank,
Florida Baptist Academy,
Flushing (New York), Madam Walker’s purchase of mansion in,
Ford, Barney,
Ford, Justina,
Ford Motor Company,
Fort Des Moines,
Fortune, T. Thomas,
Foster, W. J.,
Francis, David R.,
Franklin, Chester A.,
Fraternal organizations,
Madam Walker’s preparations endorsed by,
See also specific fraternal organizations
Frazier, E. Franklin,
Freedman’s Bureau,
Freedom’s Journal,
Freeman, Elizabeth,
Freemen (free blacks),
skin color and,
Frelinghuysen, Joseph L.,
Frick, Henry C.,
Frissell, Hollis B.,
Frissell, Sidney,
Fugitt, Callie,
Fuller, Alfred C.,
Fuller Brush Company,
Furniss, Henry,
Furniss, Sumner,
Gamble, James N.,
Garland, Phyl,
Garrison, William Lloyd,
Garside, Frances,
Garvey, Marcus,
Paris Peace Conference and,
Garvin, Charles,
Gary (Indiana),
Genealogical tables,
General Federation of Women’s Clubs,
George, Czarina,
George, Louis,
Georgia
lynching in,
troops of, and St. Louis World’s Fair,
German colonies in Africa,
Gibson, Charles Dana,
Gibson Girl,
Gillette, King,
Ginzburg, Ralph,
Givens, B. F.,
Givens, Delilah,
Glossine,
drug store sales of,
Godard, Arthur H.,
Good Citizens League,
Gould, Jay,
Grand Cake Walk Contest (St. Louis),
Grant, Ulysses S.,
Grateau, Marcel,
Great Depression,
Green, Henrietta “Hetty,”
Griffin, Myrtis,
Griffith, D. W.,
Griggs, E. M.,
Grimké, Francis,
Hadnott, W. W.,
Haines Industrial and Normal Institute,
Hair
Afro style of,
ancient African grooming of,
in the Bible,
commercial value of,
in Denver climate,
Madam Walker on hats and,
Madam Walker’s problems with her,
Madam Walker’s scalp treatment and. See Walker System
of Mae Walker,
politics of,
slave masters and,
social status and,
straighteners of
hair-care preparations distinguished from,
hot comb,
Madam Walker and,
manufacturers of,
newspaper ads for,
whether blacks should use,
Hair care products
C. J. Walker’s business in,
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br /> Deshay’s,
distinguished from straighteners,
Madam Walker’s
discovered in a dream,
growing hair her aim,
her experimentation,
ingredients,
See also Glossine; Wonderful Hair Grower
meeting of manufacturers of,
at 1912 NNBL convention,
1920s competition in,
recycling of tins for,
Washington’s dismissal of,
white-owned manufacturers of,
World War I shortages of,
See also Pope-Turnbo, Annie
Hairdressers, black,
Hairdressing
proposed Tuskegee course in,
revolution in,
Haiti
Madam Walker on,
Paris Peace Conference delegates of,
U.S. Minister to,
Haley, Victoria Clay,
Hamitic League,
Hammond, Littleton,
Hammond, Samira Thomas,
Hampton Institute,
Handy, W. C.,
Harlan, Louis R.,
Harlem (New York City)
description of,
history of,
Madam Walker’s 1913 trip to,
Madam Walker’s move to,
Mother AME Zion Church,
Payton fosters move by blacks to,
St. Philip’s Protestant Episcopal Church,
Walker town house in,
rented to New York City,
War Department surveillance of,
World War I troops from. See 369th Infantry Regiment
Harlem Child Welfare League,
Harlem Monthly Magazine,
Harlem Property Owners’ Protective Association,
“Harlem Rag,”
Harlem Renaissance,
Harper’s Monthly,
Harris, J. C.,
Harris, J. W.,
Harrison, Benjamin,
Harrison, Hubert,
Harrison, Maria,
Harrison, Richard B.,
Harvard University,
Hawkins, Celeste,
Hayes, Rutherford B.,
Hayward, William,
Hearst, William Randolph,
Heckscher, August,
Helena (Arkansas),
“Here Comes My Daddy Now” (song),
Herndon, Alonzo,
Himes, Chester,
Hinckley Bible,
Hinds County Gazette,
Hine, Darlene Clark,
Hippocrates,
Holley, M. A.,
Holliday, Evaline,
Holliday, John,
Holly, C. A.,
Holt, Nora,
Honea Path (South Carolina),
Hoover, Herbert,
Hope, John,
Hot Springs (Arkansas),
House, Edward M.,
Houston (Texas), soldiers’ riot in,
Howard, Antoinette,
Howard University,
Hudspath, Robert S.,
Huggins, Nathan Irvin,
Hughes, Charles Evans,
Hughes, Langston,
“To A’Lelia,”
“The Weary Blues,”
Hull-House (Chicago),
Hunt, Nathan, at Paris Peace Conference,
Hunter, Alberta,
Hunter, Tera,
Hunton, Addie,
Hylan, John S.,
ILDP. See International League of Darker Peoples
Illinois, troops of, and St. Louis World’s Fair,
“I’ll See You Again” (song),
“I’m Just Wild About Harry” (song),
Income tax,
Indiana, free blacks in,
Indiana Association of Negro Physicians, Dentists, and Pharmacists,
Indiana Historical Society,
Indianapolis (Indiana)
Alpha Home,
Bethel AME Church,
blacks in,
description of,
Isis Theatre incident in,
Madam Walker’s home in,
Madam Walker moves from,
Madam Walker settles in,
Walker firm in. See Madam C. J. Walker Manufacturing Company
Walker Theatre in,
YMCA in,
Indianapolis Freeman,
Indianapolis Motor Speedway,
Indianapolis News,
Indianapolis Recorder,
Indianapolis Star,
Indianapolis World,
International League of Darker Peoples (ILDP),
Inter-State Tattler (tabloid),
Iowa Bystander,
Iowa Federation of Colored Women,
Irvington-on-Hudson, Madam Walker’s Villa Lewaro mansion in,
attempted sale of,
auction of treasures of,
construction of,
description of,
general contractors for,
International League of Darker Peoples meeting at,
Lelia Walker’s entertainments at,
in Madam Walker’s last will,
as National Historic Landmark,
1918 birthday and Christmas at,
origin of name of,
plans for,
Scott dinner at,
369th welcomed at,
Jacks, James W.,
Jackson, Andrew,
Jackson, Czarina,
Jackson, Gordon,
Jackson, Walker Gordon (Walker Perry),
Jackson, Ida Joyce,
Jackson, May Howard,
Jackson, William Sherman,
Jackson (Mississippi),
black women required to work in,
Jacksonville (Florida),
Jamaica, Madam Walker in,
James, Mrs. William,
Japan
at Paris Peace Conference,
possible alliance between blacks and,
in St. Louis World’s Fair exhibit,
Jet magazine,
Johnson, Alexander,
Johnson, Andrew,
Johnson, Charles S.,
Johnson, Henry,
Johnson, J. Rosamond,
Johnson, James Weldon,
antilynching march organized by,
in 1917 delegation to White House,
Paris Peace Conference and,
World War I supported by,
Johnson, Mary L.,
Johnson Manufacturing Company,
Jonas, R. D.,
Jones, Eugene Kinckle,
Jones, Frank,
Jones, Jacqueline,
Jones, Sissieretta,
Joplin, Scott,
Jordan, Arthur,
Jordan, David Starr,
Jordan, Joe,
Joyner, Marjorie Stewart,
Judd, Dr.,
Julian, Hubert Fauntleroy,
Just, Ernest,
Kaninga, Edmund,
Kansas, black emigration to,
Kansas City Star,
Keller, Helen,
Kellogg, John Harvey,
Kelly, Alice,
in Madam Walker’s last will,
Kennedy, James Arthur,
divorce of,
King, C. D. B.,
Kinkilla,
Kink-No-More,
Knights of the White Camelia,
Knox, George,
Knox, Mr. and Mrs. Elwood,
Knoxville College, Lelia Walker in,
Kornweibel, Theodore,
Kuriowa, S.,
Kuykendall, Rufus,
Ladies’ Home Journal, The,
La Liberté (Paris newspaper),
Lamentation Day (1892),
Laney, Lucy,
Lansing, Robert,
Larrie, Dora,
married to C. J. Walker,
Lattimore, George,
Laundresses. See Washerwomen
Lawrence, Arthur,
Layten, S. Willie,
Lee, Jeremiah,
Lee, Shelton “St
ack,”
Lee County (Georgia),
Le Figaro (Paris newspaper),
Lelia College,
Leonard, C. Henri,
Lewis, David Levering,
Lewis, Dr.,
Lewis, Edna. See Thomas, Edna Lewis
Lewis, James Hamilton,
Lewis, William,
Lewis, William H.,
Lias, Jennie Gully,
Liberator,
Liberia
AME churches in,
emigration to,
Madam Walker’s rescue of girls in,
Paris Peace Conference delegates of,
Liberty Loan,
Lice,
Liggett & Myers,
Lincoln, Abraham,
Lincoln Motion Picture Company,
Lincoln University,
L’Intransigeant (Paris newspaper),
Literary Digest,
Little, William,
Littleton, Elijah,
Livingstone College,
Lloyd George, David,
Locke, Alain,
Logan, Adella Hunt,
Logan, Warren,
London (England), Lelia Walker in,
Long, Anna Burney,
Long, Jefferson,
Long, R. Burney,
Los Angeles (California)
Madam Walker in,
Walker operation in,
Louisiana
constitutional convention in,
lynching in,
Republican legislature in,
schools closed in,
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904),
Louisville (Kentucky),
Lovejoy (Illinois),
Loving, Walter H.,
Low, Seth,
Lunn, George,
Lydia Pinkham’s patent medicine,
Lynch, Mary,
Lynching
Harlem 1917 mass meeting against,
Lamentation Day (1892) protest of,
false story of Madam Walker’s first husband,
Madam Walker’s work in prevention of,
contributions,
NAACP campaigns against,
NACW condemnation of,
newspaper reports of,
proposed federal law against,
publisher’s pledge of $100,000 for convictions in,
statistics on,
See also Race riots
Lyndhurst (mansion),
Lyons, William,
McGee, W. J.,
McGowan, Hugh J.,
McLean County (Kentucky),
McNairdee, Mrs. L. E.,
McWilliams, Moses,
McWilliams, Sallie (married name of Sarah Breedlove),
Madam C. J. Walker’s National Association of Hair Growers,
Madam C. J. Walker Benevolent Association,
Madam C. J. Walker Manufacturing Company,
Christmas 1930 messages to workers at,
closing of,
competition with,
cosmetics line of,
factory of,
in Great Depression,
incorporation of,
landmarking of building of,
Lelia Walker as president of,
Lelia Walker’s declining interest in,
new headquarters and factory of,
1955 description of,
1960s reaction against products of,
1920s sales of,
stock of,
Madam Walker Beauty Culturists Union (organization of Walker agents),
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