Mae Makes a Way: The True Story of Mae Reeves, Hat & History Maker Rhuday-Perkovich Olugbemisola
Mae Makes a Way: The True Story of Mae Reeves, Hat & History Maker Rhuday-Perkovich Olugbemisola Tip your hat to fashion designer and civil rights icon Mae Reeves in this picture book biography…
Specifikacia Mae Makes a Way: The True Story of Mae Reeves, Hat & History Maker Rhuday-Perkovich Olugbemisola
Mae Makes a Way: The True Story of Mae Reeves, Hat & History Maker Rhuday-Perkovich Olugbemisola
Tip your hat to fashion designer and civil rights icon Mae Reeves in this picture book biography written in collaboration with the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture! But the path for a Black female designer was unclear, so Mae made a way, leaving her home in the segregated South to study at the Chicago School of Millinery.Mae had the skills, but craved the independence to create her own styles. "A fine introduction to a determined trailblazer." -The New York TimesMae had a dream to make one-of-a-kind hats.
In Philadelphia, she became the first Black woman to own a business on South Street. So Mae found a way. Whether you were Lena Horne, Ella Fitzgerald, Marian Anderson or a lady from the neighborhood, Mae wanted you to look good and feel special in one of her original hats.A mother, a successful