Ruth P Watson
Auteur de A Right Worthy Woman
Œuvres de Ruth P Watson
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- Œuvres
- 4
- Membres
- 57
- Popularité
- #287,973
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 17
I hardly read books set in the late 1800s but it was a good book.
It's based on Maggie Lena Walker's life in VA. She was one strong advocate of "coloreds" and fought for women's rights and other coloreds back when they were shunned.
She opened her own department store, and opened a bank also. What a life she led with her momma, her husband and her children. There was tragedy everywhere, both in her personal life and in life in general. Businessmen, mayors, governors despised her but she was a strong women and mostly got her way, being a colored woman though a lot of people said she wasn't colored because she had a white daddy that she never knew.
She died in 1934. I liked reading the authors notes at the end about her life.… (plus d'informations)