Book Description
A biography of the businesswoman who was born in poverty on a Louisiana plantation, founded her own hair care business, and made more money than any woman, black or white, had ever made before in America.
Author : Donnette Black
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 33,50 MB
Release : 2010-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 145202443X
A biography of the businesswoman who was born in poverty on a Louisiana plantation, founded her own hair care business, and made more money than any woman, black or white, had ever made before in America.
Author : A'Lelia Bundles
Publisher : Scribner
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 33,52 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0743431723
Soon to be a Netflix series starring Octavia Spencer, On Her Own Ground is the first full-scale biography of “one of the great success stories of American history” (The Philadelphia Inquirer), Madam C.J. Walker—the legendary African American entrepreneur and philanthropist—by her great-great-granddaughter, A’Lelia Bundles. The daughter of formerly enslaved parents, Sarah Breedlove—who would become known as Madam C. J. Walker—was orphaned at seven, married at fourteen, and widowed at twenty. She spent the better part of the next two decades laboring as a washerwoman for $1.50 a week. Then—with the discovery of a revolutionary hair care formula for black women—everything changed. By her death in 1919, Walker managed to overcome astonishing odds: building a storied beauty empire from the ground up, amassing wealth unprecedented among black women, and devoting her life to philanthropy and social activism. Along the way, she formed friendships with great early-twentieth-century political figures such as Ida B. Wells, Mary McLeod Bethune, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Booker T. Washington.
Author : Katie Marsico
Publisher : Cherry Lake
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 26,60 MB
Release : 2007-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1602792097
Madam C. J. Walker's business skills, motivation, and determination helped her to develop a hair product and become the first African American woman millionaire. Readers will learn how those same skills also helped her reach out and help people living in poverty and speak out against injustice.
Author : P. J. Graham
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 37,3 MB
Release : 2019-07-15
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 1502645440
Born into an African American family a few years after the end of the Civil War, the woman who became known as Madam C. J. Walker entered a world where slavery was still a very raw wound in American society. Although she was orphaned at a young age, C. J. Walker quickly learned about the world around her and how to adapt. The children of sharecroppers, she and her sister worked in cotton fields until Walker married at the age of fourteen. Eventually, she settled in St. Louis, Missouri, near her brothers. There, she started her own hair-care company, which grew into an empire and took her around the world. This is the story of Walker's inspiring perseverance on her journey to entrepreneurial success, filled with highs and lows which culminated in her becoming one of the wealthiest women in the twentieth century.
Author : A'Lelia Bundles
Publisher : All about
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,42 MB
Release : 2017-12-14
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781681570938
Madam C. J. Walker was beloved within her community for her philanthropy and establishing the local YMCA, but she couldn't have done that if she wasn't the first female self-made millionaire and one of the most successful African American business owners ever. Born Sarah Breedlove, she was the first person born free in her family. She married Charles Joseph Walker and became known as Madam C. J. Walker, the name she would later use on her haircare products. After talking with her brothers, who were barbers, she realized that African American women didn't know how to properly care for their hair. This inspired her to start her own line of hair care products to do things like reduce dandruff, grow longer hair, smooth hair, or prevent baldness. Her company employed thousands of door-to-door saleswomen from all over the United States and the Caribbean. She supported the African American community by establishing the first YMCA in Indianapolis, funding scholarships for the Tuckegee Institute, and becoming a patron of the Harlem renaissance.
Author : Patricia Mckissack
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 23,40 MB
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0766041050
"A simple biography about Madam CJ Walker for early readers"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Darlene R. Stille
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 43,13 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780756518837
Examines Madam Walker who was America's first black female millionaire.
Author : Mary N. Oluonye
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 15,49 MB
Release : 2014-11-18
Category : African American women executives
ISBN : 9781503183506
"A concise, easy to read biography of Madam C.J. Walker. The book brings Madam Walker's story to life in a way that will inspire young readers to follow their own dreams for success "--Amazon.
Author : Darlene R. Stille
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 46,35 MB
Release : 2017
Category : African American women executives
ISBN : 075655165X
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Author : Caitie McAneney
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 26,78 MB
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1499421346
Before Madam C.J. Walker launched a line of beauty and hair products for black women, she was Sarah Breedlove, a washerwoman in rural Louisiana. This title presents Walker’s fascinating biography, tracing her life from a childhood in poverty to becoming America’s first female self-made millionaire. Through accessible text and historical photographs, readers will learn about Walker’s entrepreneurial mind and the spirit that allowed her to found a company and launch a successful beauty empire in the unlikeliest of times. This text, through its use of social studies concepts, primary sources, and a comprehensive timeline, is designed to engage readers while supporting classroom learning.