Juliet E. K. Walker

Juliet E. K. Walker
Born	1940 (age 84–85) United States
Education	Roosevelt University (B.A.) University of Chicago (M.A., Ph.D.)
Alma mater	University of Chicago
Occupation(s)	Historian, writer, educator
Employer	University of Texas at Austin
Known for	African American business history; Free Frank McWorter
Notable work	Free Frank (1983) The History of Black Business in America (1998) Encyclopedia of African American Business History (1999)
Title	Professor emerita
Relatives	Free Frank McWorter (great-great grandfather)

Juliet E. K. Walker (born 1940) ^[1] is an American historian, writer, and educator. ^[2] She is a foremost scholar on African American entrepreneurship, her books on Free Frank McWorter and the history of African American business have won various awards. ^{[3] [4]} Walker is a professor emerita at the University of Texas at Austin.

Walker has a B.A. degree from Roosevelt University in Chicago; followed by a M.A. degree at the University of Chicago. ^[5] She received a Ph.D. in 1976 in American history from the University of Chicago, where John Hope Franklin was one of her professors. Her postdoctoral studies were at the Radcliffe Bunting Institute's Berkshire Fellowship, and the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University. ^[3]

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
• The History of Black Business in America: Capitalism, Race, Entrepreneurship (1st ed.). New York City, NY: Macmillan Press. 1998. ^{[8] [9] [10]}
• Walker, Juliet E. K., ed. (1999). Encyclopedia of African American Business History. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN   0-313-29549-2. ^[11]

References

1. "Walker, Juliet E. K., 1940-". viaf.org.
2. Journal, By Carla Slavey Commonwealth (February 6, 2021). "Black History Month: Honoring a man who bought his family's freedom". Commonwealth Journal.
3. "Juliet E. K. Walker Receives Madame C.J. Walker Lifetime Achievement Award". liberalarts.utexas.edu.
4. "Year in Review: Juliet E. K. Walker's Scholarly Contributions and Community Outreach Efforts make Significant Impact". liberalarts.utexas.edu. October 7, 2019. Retrieved March 10, 2025.
5. "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF)– via University of Texas at Austin.
6. Currier, Joel (July 30, 2004). "Town Dig Kicks up the Dust". St. Louis Post-Dispatch . pp. B001 – via newspapers.com.
7. Crawford, Byron (January 30, 2004). "Professor follows path of pioneer 'Free Frank'". The Courier-Journal . pp. B1 – via newspapers.com.
8. Dailey, Maceo (June 1999). "Dailey on Walker, 'The History of Black Business in America: Capitalism, Race, Entrepreneurship'". networks.h-net.org (book review).
9. Bogan, Vicki (September 2010). "The History of Black Business in America: Capitalism, Race, Entrepreneurship, Volume 1, to 1865 (Second Edition). By Juliet E. K. Walker. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2009. Pp. xxiv, 405. $24.95, paper" . The Journal of Economic History. 70 (3): 777–778. doi:10.1017/S0022050710000689. ISSN   0022-0507.
10. Ingham, John N. (June 1, 1999). "The History of Black Business in America: Capitalism, Race, Entrepreneurship. By Juliet E. K. Walker. (New York: Twayne, 1998. xxvi, 482 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8057-1650-5.)" . Journal of American History. 86 (1): 251–252. doi:10.2307/2567474. ISSN   0021-8723.
11. Weems, Robert E. (2001). "Review of Encyclopedia of African American Business History". Enterprise & Society. 2 (1): 177–180. ISSN   1467-2227.