![]() Certainly when I learned that she had been considered a "Negro subversive" in 1918 and had been put under surveillance by a black War Department The Westchester County estates of John D. I could not have invented her 1917 visit to the White House to protest lynching or her decision to build a mansion near League convention or her 1916 arrival in Harlem on the eve of America's entry into World War I. Washington at his 1912 National Negro Business ![]() I could not have fabricated a more perfect scenario than her confrontation with Booker T. Other former slaves in the 1879 mass exodus to the North from Louisiana and Mississippi. ![]() Grant staged the 1863 Siege of Vicksburg and that one of her brothers joined Who loves a well-told story - I consider it to be my good fortune both that she was born in 1867 on the plantation where General Ulysses S. As my great-great-grandmother's biographer - and as a journalist ![]() Walker's story has always deserved an expansive loom on which to weave the threads of her legendary life with the broad themes and major events of American history. ![]()
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