VPM 60th Anniversary
Our Inspiration, The Story of Maggie Lena Walker
Episode 54 | 1m 13sVideo has Closed Captions
WCVE, filmmaker William Sydnor and PBS produced Our Inspiration, The Story of Maggie Lena Walker.
In 1998, WCVE, filmmaker William Sydnor and PBS produced Our Inspiration, The Story of Maggie Lena Walker. Enjoy this trip down memory lane from the VPM video vault.
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VPM 60th Anniversary is a local public television program presented by VPM
VPM 60th Anniversary
Our Inspiration, The Story of Maggie Lena Walker
Episode 54 | 1m 13sVideo has Closed Captions
In 1998, WCVE, filmmaker William Sydnor and PBS produced Our Inspiration, The Story of Maggie Lena Walker. Enjoy this trip down memory lane from the VPM video vault.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship(exciting music) (button clicking) (static scratching) (light music) (button clicking) (curtain sliding) ♪ Should have got a robe ♪ ♪ One day I'm gonna put on my robe ♪ ♪ I'm gonna walk ♪ (buttons clicking) >>We must throw off all discouragement.
(lively music) It's no part of god's plan that we should fail.
(crowd cheering) Let us ban together, acknowledge leadership, put our hands and brains together.
No substantial progress can come to our race unless we develop along business lines.
(hands clapping) If we but catch the vision (hands clapping) what a mighty power we shall be.
♪ Shout, shout, shout, yeah ♪ (lively music continues) >>Mrs.
Walker's passion was to create what she called monuments to negro achievement, a bank, a department store, a nationwide business, a newspaper, anything her followers had the courage and desire to work for.
She expanded for many of them their horizons.
(light music) What could be more American than that?
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