The Spirit of Madam C.J. Walker Lives on at Villa Lewaro
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- The historic Irvington, New York, summer home of Madam C.J. Walker still stands today, reminding us of the optimism and perseverance of America’s first self-made female millionaire. Villa Lewaro has changed hands several times since Madam Walker passed away, but her entrepreneurial spirit lives on through the home’s restoration, in the hands of owners Helena and Ambassador Harold E. Doley. Here, Helena Doley speaks to the power in preserving this landmark of African American achievement for future generations of Americans.
Support the preservation of Villa Lewaro and other sites of African American history through the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund at savingplac.es/2HQxYpx
Anybody here from the Netflix series
imhereforit huntie they lied about a lot
Me
Me !!!!!
Remember it said INSPIRED by Madam C J Walkers life. I believe there were some "untruths" in the episodes. But I love it brings about and research on who she really is.
The acting was GREAT and
I'm not just saying that because I
Don't Support Hollywood Boules LGBT supporters at ALL, but the disrespect
of OUR Ancestry has to stoP !!
Madame CJ Walkers so called
Legacy is a frauD ! That special
on Netflix certainly was
that speciaL 👎🏽
I don't know why people say it was for 'all' women it was for black women. She did what she did to better black lives
Amen
Exactly
I think they say that be a she was the first “woman” millionaire, period. Not just black woman, but the first self-made “woman” millionaire.
Indeed
Exactly. Negro people love to include all. Never put themselves first
This house is beautiful
Shandra9000mail you’re a weirdo.
I'd love to tour this amazing estate. To think that a black woman created a business..that allowed her to live so well is amazing. Her home is beautiful. Remember people her legacy existed before this movie... If you feel that her life in anyway was falsely depicted in the movie feel free to read books about her and do your own research. One things for sure. she was a phenomenal woman. Can't nobody take that from her.
I agree. I think despite some of the inaccuracies of the movie it has sparked a interest in her life and legacy, I have surely done more research to learn about her.
It's not "if you *feel* ".. though. It's not about a feeling. According to online research the Netflix movie about her life IS falsely depicted in so many areas and it's incomprehensible as to why...? When a historical figure, who has achieved so much in just 12-13 years and an inspiration to many women even of different races, really should be introduced to the masses through a factual biopic, not a story "inspired by..." with all kinds of weird agendas going on. It's excellent acting but story wise it's alot of bs.
@@chrysichrysi7889 Yours entitled to your opinion . I enjoyed the movie.
Watching Octavia as Madam CJ right now. Amazing and inspiring.
Maureen Broomall same here watching it right haha love her story so inspiring
same here
Was trying to watch. Kept freezing on me.
i watched it so good
It really is a great show👏👏👏👏 stay safe 💙💙💙
My mother may she RIP always mentioned 2 people she admired Madam C.J. Walker and Jackie Robinson
Honestly this made me cry. Madame CJ walker is an inspiration to us all.
No not for any color!!! That's the problem with Black Americans she created this for her people first.
@Rose Stephen .... You are ABSOLUTELY correct. Even though all we have today is the historical perspective “they” present to us - The Great, Proud, Hard Working, SMART, Madame C J Walker, did NOT strike me as an “ass kisser “, head bowing WOMAN. She most DEFINITELY did everything that she did to uplift and encourage BLACK women. Why would she WASTE her time, .”uplifting” White women, who didn’t have to work hard to earn a damn thing. They have ALWAYS felt privileged and superior - and have been handed all they desire on a silver platter.
The narrative from the woman in this video - indicating that Madame “worked tirelessly for ALL WOMEN “, sounds naive and stupid.
She was definitely a Black woman that was about the business of uplifting HER. Own Black people.
I wish I could have met her. My heart just burst with pride when I see ALL that she accomplished ! She makes me So PROUD to be a Black woman. I LOVE her.
Madame C J Walker’s spirit and that of her daughter A’Lelia and ALL of the people who stood with her - LIVE on through me.❤️💕😥.
God Bless their beautiful souls and memory .
Rose Stephen does any stores still carry her hair products
@@margieknight8053 I believe her company was relaunched you can do a search.
Rose Stephen Thank you 🙏🏽
She was the first "FEMALE" self-made millionaire. She concurred more then ONE hurdle!
@Tab Blu there is debate whether she was or Annie Malone was the first female self-made millionaire. Research it.
*Annie Malone
This women was determined. Both her parents were dead by the time she was 7 yrs old. Aw
It's almost like those that has suffered hard knocks such as losing both parents at the tender age of 7, that God follows them more,and blesses them more, as though trying to make up for the terrible loss they suffered. Some can't see their blessings. I know a person who also lost a parent at a tender age, but has harbored so much bitterness, probably even blaming God for it, that even though outwardly I can visibly see how blessed and fortunate she is, by her possessions, and how she handles her business pretty well, I also see she's not complete, because of that bitterness she reveals sometimes. The thing is some people who think they know it all, you can't tell them a thing you feel would help. So I leave her be. I have been through enough people like this, and I found they all are like that, and I call them Nutty Professors, and let it go. I know God has a way of getting to them, even He has to do it in a dream, because He leaves nothing incomplete. I know He had to come to me in a dream to let me know that holding grudges was bad. I had been holding grudges for about 10years against some people who sent me thru some grief, and one night 10yrs later I had been praying to God for help for a family member in trouble. So I was going to sleep and I clearly heard "How do you expect your prayers to be answered when you can't forgive others". I instantly sat up, and knew it was from God, and said"Lord I forgive them, and forgive me for holding grudges". Madam C.J.Walker was a very wise woman so I'm sure she knew her blessed life, came from God.
Wow
Cloveice Colemen After all, God is all of our ultimate parent. Our mothers and fathers were just a vehicle to birth us into this world, but God is the real parent.
Thank you preserving Villa Lewaro. True lay a national treasure. So happy an African American is there!,🕌
Wow. She was a boss
What a shame the NAACP is selling this historical black mansion wow what a shame.
Gordon Payne LOL! So she coined that phrase?
She was also heard shouting, "Quit walking on the Grass! Giiiiiirl! Das my word!!!!"
And thomas Jefferson house is a landmark people buy tickets to tour. NAACP is all about money the daughter left in the hands of the wrong people..they rather profit off it instead of holding it as value
@@Cloud-iq2ub everything I read says the NAACP sold it in 1932. It was willed to them at the daughters death. They could not afford the property taxes and maintenance to keep it. I think it was around $40,000 a year for taxes alone. The daughter had already sold many furnishings. This was at the height of the depression. I’m sure they couldn’t afford to keep it.
@@deelite6677 The daughter partied BIG TIME during the Glory years in Harlem, in the 1920's. She gave big parties in that home and sponsored a lot of people. That is what happens when you leave your money to kids, that never worked for shit. Additionally, she only had one child.
It’s beautiful. I wish I could visit.
This house is being gorgeous, it's impeccable.
Chocolate Thunder I wish Tyler Perry buy her house and make movies 🎥 in it
What ALL women are you referring to...during that time? You mean BLACK women right?
Lol, right! I was what?!?
Child people prefer political correctness over unfiltered truth. She was a black woman, who made products for black women, and marketed the product directly to black women...PERIOD.
The women in the other countries where black, that’s why she marketed her hair products to them.
@Jenn Jenn she was VERY specific about the NEGRO woman...not this imaginary illusion of inclusion that people want to run with now.
Preservation of real history is important. That much is true. Madam CJ Walker definitely is a major inspirational to Black Women especially let's be real. Most Black Women that are entrepreneurs are in the hair and beauty industry so without a doubt her legacy lives on ✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿
This is beautiful and it’s honestly bringing tears to my eyes
I truly enjoyed the movie this week on Madame C. J. Walker....and it was an inspiration as a black woman to see what madame was able to accomplish with her strength and perseverance....
Please know that some parts in the movie on Netflix was completely fictional read Amelia Bundles book her granddaughter but aside from that Madam was an incredible woman and she was the First Self Made American woman Millionaire, and it didn't take this movie for me to know that.
Edited to add that Annie Malone was also a black woman ahead of time and a true trailblazer in her own right.
I was so inspired when I seen the movie and she was going door to door passing out flyers 🤔
You SAW the movie dear, not seen!
Wonderful the place is still standing and being preserve. I watched Self Made on Netflicks and didn't have a dry eye the whole time. It's a must see very inspirational and self driven.
AWESOME! Thanks so much for your part in preserving our history!
Thank you for preserving this precious piece of history
Very good documentary. And very very very beautiful mansion. Thanks
Thank you
First Carol daughter, Miss Jessie natural hair care product. She is inspirational o so many levels. Think about the things she had to over come. Wow what a legacy she left her family which is all of us.
Avon and Mary Kay followed Madam CJ Walker's business method.
Thank u..for this..learning more about het now than in school..wow..
Thank You🎉🎊🎉✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾History!!!🖤🖤🖤
Wow... looks amazing
Thank you! I am inspired and continue to be- I must say like never before or by anyone before! What this one woman- with absolute determination could achieve..It is jaw dropping! So to those who criticize the series on its lack of accuracy- I say, after seeing her actual home, the series understates things! WOW! (I made this comment before seeing the last episode..quite a house!)
This home is so beautiful and inspiring, wow!
The home is BEAUTIFUL!
Madame C. J. Walker's Villa Lewaro Mansion was designed by Vertner Woodson Tandy, an accomplished African American architect whom also was one of the seven founders of the first inter-collegiate fraternities for black men, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., at Cornell University in 1906 in Ithaca New York.
Wow need to visit
Spoken very well🔥
She was an amazing woman. Such an inspiration!
Nice house 👌🏻
That place looks amazing
Acabei de assistir a minissérie na Netflix, é bom pesquisar um pouco mais, fiquei encantada com a garra e determinação da Sra Sarah, apaixonada pelo legado que pode ser sim, exemplo para tds nós.
Amazing beautiful!!!!
BEAUTIFUL PLACE
She did it for black people not for other people.
@Jenn Jenn I highly doubt it when I say she did it for black women I meant she helped improve the formula because black women needed products to help their hair grow too. Miss Malone was an instrument in this process as well. And as far as inspiring a white woman which is a lie only they only wanted black women to wash, cook, be maids, and nannies.
How proper english, precise and well educated talk this woman. ! Bravo! for her. 🙏
You can not be serious 🙄🙄
Work on your English.
@@FaithandNova Explain yourself.
@@skyrobin4008 If you have a better opinion about what I wrote, then write the right sentence. Teach me instead.
Well spoken.
Nice house....
🙌🏾
Yes, awesome series on Netflix, they are selling Artwork now.
Can the public visit this place?
As a stylist , she’s so inspiring to me . I pray to be as successful and make as many women feel empowered and beautiful as she did . Follow @iadoretresses on fb and ig ❤️
She did it and so can you Belle!
Thank you !!! That means a lot to me
MADAM CJ WALKER worked as a launderess for Annie Malone.Ms.Malone didn't want her (Madam CJ Walker) to be one of her sales agents.That's why Madam CJ Walker created her own hair grow and line if hair products and business and had the factories buildt,after traveling,hiring sale agents and selling tins of hair grow for 50 cent each.My maternal great grandmother,Gertrude (Breedlove or Breadlove different spellings are known),Getrude Breedlove-Anderson,is Madam Cj Walker's first cousin.They are all from Louisiana.She made her own way and never stole from anyone,especially not from Annie Malone.Everybody has the same 24/7 days in life and Madam made hers count and paid it forward nonstop.I will be watching this Netflix story about a blood relative unfold.Thank you,Casey Grimes-Finley,Chicago,Illinois
Ummm Madam CJ Walker was one of Annie Malone first saleswoman, that movie is 80% Hollywood fiction.
@@ChitownCrazy1000 You are 100% right about the embellished storyline between these two Great women! Annie Malone wasn't some self absorbed light skin woman with evil business practices. Even though they may have had business disagreements. I don't think that Annie Malone's family would appreciate her legacy being twisted like THIS! Both great women who did alot for their communities! Hollywood with their bs on BLACK history! Maybe that's why they used a different name for Annie Malone in this movie. Research your history people! Stop letting the story get diluted with gossip and slander!
@@ChitownCrazy1000 Both women made a business out the need for haircare for women of color,in a time especially when there were slim to no opportunities for women and of course none for African americans,and african american women.Period.Annie Malone did not want Madame CJ Walker to be an agent,she employed Madame as a laundress.They were both successful in a time when this just was unheard of.#ButGod.Thank you,Casey Grimes-Finley,Chicago,Illinois
@@earlcage3722 Yes in the movie the change her name and made her mixed for Hollywood effect. But Annie was born to two enslaved Africans and did just as much for Black people as CJ. The two women only went back and forth with each other in the newspapers.
@@kaygrimes1882 she employed her as a sales agent and did so for years! Annie malone was an inspiration for cj Walker and annie malone was a millionaire and philanthropist as well!!
I honestly did not even know who she was. Until I stumbled on the Netflix Movie. Annie Malone deserve respect as well.Please Utube The Annie Malone story. The movie did not portray her correct.The fact that these women accomplished Wealth in times back then does not give anyone an excuse today.
Thanks 😊 sis for say all colors I’m Mexican American my some of friends are black
I think she had the house built to say to her people, It can be done. Just like everything else she did. Why we're not talking about her in Black history month for over a hundred years? But we're talking about Obama. He really made me fill special, for 4 yrs. But Madam CJ Walker. Make me fill like I've accomplish something , that they can't take back.
Is it open for visitors?
My history
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Anne Malone was the 1st self made Black female woman not Madame CJ
Actually it was Ruby Turner
I don't care. Both were bw. It's a win either way. Let's celebrate that.
She was THOUGHT to be but ok!
😘
She was not the first female Millionaire , she worked for Annie Malone who had 14 million dollars *Illinois, an she just honed in an made the pressing comb teeth wider.
Truth.. Malone taught her!
First "black female" millionaire!!
So why didn’t they make a documentary on Annie then if she really was the first female millionaire.
Annie was mixed her dad wAs white so she wasn’t a full black woman 🤷🏽♀️
@@layacharmion That movie is 80% Hollywood fiction, the real Annie Malone was a black woman by two enslaved Africans.
She fulfilled a need that every black woman desired and that's an easier way to manage your hair that's why she was so successful. Like right now for example: They are trying to find a cure for the covid19 virus. When madam wanted to comb her hair she couldn't because it was too thick and kinky at the root, the only way she could wear it more than one day was in braids or a wig. Now we have the flat iron and the perm. The perm last the longest.
Wow holy ghost no I didn't know Stan o my Lord yes beautiful u beautiful in and out and the demon knew u was next in line o Lord I hot lay down
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This movie should inspire Black women, and teach White women. Sooo stop with the its for black women not all women crap. I’m a black woman who is proud there’s a black woman that can inspire all women!!! Black,white,Asian,Hispanic,Indian, and more!!! Stop the hate. We know she’s a strong Black woman that’s obvious, but she was also a business woman,a go getter, a believer, and those doesn’t come with race. Let this movie be about empowering women, not about race, cause if it was about race I’m pretty sure it would’ve been in the movie ❤️.
I wonder if Madame CJ Walker n any of the other " elite" blacks then if they weren't apart of a Sorority/Fraternity would they still be that successful??? Just a question just seems like all the black millionaires, intellectuals,inventors,writers belong to a Sorority/ Fraternity. Did you have to? History is important for two reasons that we may not reapeat the problems of the past also we can be inspired by the great things we've done to catapult us into our future.
Madame C. J. Walker was not a member of a NPHC fraternal organization, however, her Villa Lewaro Mansion was designed by Vertner Woodson Tandy, an accomplished African American architect whom also was one of the seven founders of the first inter-collegiate fraternities for black men, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., at Cornell University in 1906 in Ithaca New York.
Sir, please read, "Our Kind Of People." ALL of your questions will be answered. Excellent book and well researched. It goes into this Sorority/Fraternity issue.
I came here because of the Netflix story. It was entertaining but misleading. I can appreciate the fictional aspect because it lead me to do my own research on Walker and Annie Malone, the real 1st African American woman millionaire. She was the pioneer of hair care products which lead to Walker's success. Now is that sign fact or fiction?
Thank God, for the narrator. It was beautifully done.
Tenacity & determination is in EVERY NON-IMMIGRANT BLACK PERSON IN AMERICA. We have fueled America with our blood, sweat, tears & flesh.
It sends a message saying black people don't want to work hard enough. We do! Check out this video as to why more Madam CJ Walker don't exist in America.
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Why did it fall into disarray?? it makes me sad that before they came along and revived the mansion, that it was in such disarray, who is taking care of our black history?? But I'm glad that they are in charge of this now and honoring her memory and her legacy.
Oh she built that home for ego. But I'm glad she did.
Ameena Singleton did you know her neighbor was Rocka Fello
It’s in the movie on Netflix
Madam CJ Walker is something to be proud of however how many other black people can you say learned from her. She didn't pass on the knowledge which is typical of black people. Every one for them damm selves. Black people don't even pass down knowledge to their own children and these practices needs to stop.
Mother Trump thank u we told u didn't have worrie about them we know all about u and u kept climbing girl man I never seen nothing like it
Annie Malone...the true boss...CJ worked for her then stole from her. CJ not the first women millionaire. It was her boss Annie Malone.
§TRUTH
Well she should've had more faith in herself. And did like Madam Cj Walker
Don’t care she was a self hating white/black woman 🤷🏽♀️🤷🏽♀️
@@layacharmion the nextfix movie is a fictitious movie based off the life of madam cj walker Annie malone was not mullato or hated darker women like they showed in the movie look her up she before you just believe anything
@@layacharmion You Need to Wake up and go research Truth over Hollywood Lies bye Annie Malone Was Not A mullato she was not who the series portrayed her to be. They only changed name so they will not be Sued for Defamation!
Omg I hate the noise her mouth is making 🤦🏾♂️
I thought it was just me that heard it
Yes Lord its bothering me so bad. Sis need some water.
Yeah that's disgusting
Well you probably couldn't watch those ASMR videos lol
@@sweetpeach3293 nope
Just tell the truth and stop giving us false history