On her own ground : the life and times of Madam C.J. Walker

Summary:

"The daughter of slaves, 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 W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington."--Front flap of jacket.

Item details

ISBN: 9780684825823
ISBN: 0684825821
Physical Description: 415 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, genealogical table ; 25 cm
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Publisher: New York : Scribner, [2001]
Copyright: ©2001

Contents / Notes

General Note:	"A Lisa Drew book."
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 296-385) and index.

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