What awards did Madam Walker receive?
Madam Walker has received much posthumous recognition as an inductee into the National Business Hall of Fame at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago ( http://www.ja.org/hof/past_laureates.shtml), the National Women’s Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, New York ( www.greatwomen.org/home.php and http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=163 ), the American Health and Beauty Aids Institute Hall of Fame in Chicago ( www.ahbai.org ) and the Black Wax Museum in Baltimore ( http://www.greatblacksinwax.org ) Madam Walker was honored in 1998 with a U. S. postage stamp as part of the Black Heritage Series. For more information go to http://esperstamps.org/h21.htm and http://esperstamps.org . Her Irvington-on-Hudson , New York home—known as Villa Lewaro—as well as the Madam Walker Theatre Center in Indianapolis are National Historic Landmarks Today many organizations and institutions present awards named after Madam Walker.
