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

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

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"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
    print
  • Publisher: New York : Scribner, [2001]

Contents / Notes

General Note:
"A Lisa Drew book."
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 296-385) and index.
Subject: Walker, C. J Madam 1867-1919
African American women executives Biography
Cosmetics industry United States History
Walker, C. J Madam 1867-1919 Juvenile literature
Cosmétiques Industrie États-Unis Histoire
Walker, C. J Madam 1867-1919
African American women executives
Cosmetics industry
United States
Biografie
African American women executives Biography
Biographie
Genre: Biography.
Walker, C.J.
Biographies.
Biographies.
History.
Biographies.
Walker, C.J.

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  • 5 out of 5 copies are currently available at Flint River Regional Library System. (Show)
  • 1 out of 1 copy are currently available at Peachtree City Library.

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