Virtual book launch: 'Madam C.J. Walker's Gospel of Giving: Black Women's Philanthropy During Jim Crow'

About

Featuring Tyrone McKinley Freeman, Ph.D.'14, Author and A'Lelia Bundles, Madam Walker's Great-Great Granddaughter

Moderated by Bob Grimm, Ph.D.'02 (M.A.'98), Philanthropy Historian, University of Maryland Do Good Institute

Tyrone McKinley Freeman is an award-winning scholar and teacher who serves as assistant professor of philanthropic studies and director of undergraduate programs at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. Previously, he was a professional fundraiser for social services, community development, and higher education organizations. He was also associate director of The Fund Raising School where he trained nonprofit leaders in the United States, Africa, Asia, and Europe.

His research focuses on the history of African American philanthropy, philanthropy in communities of color, the history of American philanthropy, and philanthropy and fundraising in higher education. His book, Madam C.J. Walker’s Gospel of Giving: Black Women’s Philanthropy during Jim Crow (University of Illinois Press, 2020) examines African American women’s history of charitable giving, activism, education, and social service provision through the life and example of Madam C.J. Walker, the early twentieth century black philanthropist and entrepreneur.

A’Lelia Bundles is the author of On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker, a New York Times Notable Book about her entrepreneurial great-great-grandmother and the inspiration for Netflix’s Self Made starring Octavia Spencer. Bundles is at work on her fifth book, The Joy Goddess of Harlem: A’Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance.

A former network television news executive and producer at ABC News and NBC News, Bundles is a vice chairman of Columbia University’s Board of Trustees, chair emerita of the board of the National Archives Foundation and on the advisory board of the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute.

Bob Grimm is the director of the Do Good Institute and the Levenson Family Chair in Philanthropy & Nonprofit Leadership at the University of Maryland, School of Public Policy. Grimm works with an incredible team that empowers individuals to do good. As one example, three Do Good alum organizations (the Food Recovery Network, Hungry Harvest, and Imperfect Foods) collectively saved over 100 million pounds of food from going to waste.