Juliet E. K. Walker

Juliet E. K. Walker is a professor emerita[1] and author in the United States.[2][3][4] Her books on Free Frank and African American businesses have won various awards.[5]

She received a Ph.D. in American History from the University of Chicago where John Hope Franklin was one of her professors. Her postdoctoral studies have been at the Radcliffe Bunting Institute's Berkshire Fellowship and the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University.[5]

She has written about New Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[6] Free Frank McWorter is her great-great grandfather.[7]

Writings

  • Free Frank: A Black Pioneer on the Antebellum Frontier, The University Press of Kentucky (1983) ISBN 0-8131-0840-3
  • War, Peace, and Structural Violence: Peace Activism and the African- American Experience, Indiana University, Center on Global Change and World Peace (1992), a monograph
  • Encyclopedia of African American Business History Greenwood Publishing Group (1999), editor
  • The History of Black Business in America: Capitalism, Race, Entrepreneurship to 1865 University North Carolina Press (2009)

References

  1. ^ "Profile for Juliet E. K. Walker at UT Austin". liberalarts.utexas.edu.
  2. ^ "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF) – via University of Texas at Austin.
  3. ^ "Dailey on Walker, 'The History of Black Business in America: Capitalism, Race, Entrepreneurship'". networks.h-net.org.
  4. ^ Journal, By Carla Slavey Commonwealth (February 6, 2021). "Black History Month: Honoring a man who bought his family's freedom". Commonwealth Journal.
  5. ^ a b "Juliet E. K. Walker Receives Madame C.J. Walker Lifetime Achievement Award". liberalarts.utexas.edu.
  6. ^ "Town Dig Kicks up the Dust". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. July 30, 2004. pp. B001 – via newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Professor follows path of pioneer 'Free Frank'". The Courier-Journal. January 30, 2004. pp. B1 – via newspapers.com.