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Madam C. J. Walker (born Sarah Breedlove; December 23, 1867 – May 25, 1919) was an American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and political and social activist. She is recorded as the first female self-made millionaire in America in the Guinness Book of World Records. Multiple sources mention that although other women (like Mary Ellen Pleasant) might have been the first, their wealth is not as well-documented.Walker made her fortune by developing and marketing a line of cosmetics and hair care products for black women through the business she founded, Madam C. J. Walker Manufacturing Company. She became known also for her philanthropy and activism. She made financial donations to numerous organizations such as the NAACP, and became a patron of the arts. Villa Lewaro, Walker's lavish estate in Irvington, New York, served as a social gathering place for the African-American community. At the time of her death, she was considered the wealthiest African-American businesswoman and wealthiest self-made black woman in America. Her name was a version of "Mrs. Charles Joseph Walker", after her third husband. Early life Sarah Breedlove was born on December 23, 1867, close to Delta, Louisiana. Her parents were Owen and Minerva (Anderson) Breedlove. She had five siblings, who included an older sister, Louvenia, and four brothers: Alexander, James, Solomon, and Owen Jr. Robert W. Burney, enslaved her older siblings on his Madison Parish plantation. Sarah was the first child in her family born into freedom after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. Her mother died in 1872, likely from cholera; an epidemic traveled with river passengers up the Mississippi, reaching Tennessee and related areas in 1873. Her father remarried but died a year later.She was orphaned at the age of seven. Sarah moved to Vicksburg, Mississippi, at the age of 10, where she lived with Louvenia and her brother-in-law, Jesse Powell. She started working as a child as a domestic servant. "I had little or no opportunity when I started out in life, having been left an orphan and being without mother or father since I was seven years of age," she often recounted. She also recounted that she had only three months of formal education, which she learned during Sunday school literacy lessons at the church she attended during her earlier years. Personal life Marriage and family In 1882, at the age of 14, Sarah married Moses McWilliams, whose age was unknown, to escape abuse from her brother-in-law, Jesse Powell. Sarah and Moses had one daughter, Lelia, who was born on June 6, 1885. When Moses died in 1887, Sarah was twenty and Lelia was two. Sarah remarried in 1894, but left her second husband, John Davis, around 1903.In January 1906, Sarah married Charles Joseph Walker, a newspaper advertising salesman she had known in St. Louis, Missouri. Through this marriage, she became known as Madam C. J. Walker. The couple divorced in 1912; Charles died in 1926. Lelia McWilliams adopted her stepfather's surname and became known as A'Lelia Walker. Religion Walker was a Christian. Her Christian faith had a large influence on her philanthropy. She was a member of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Career In 1888, she and her daughter moved to St. Louis, where three of her brothers lived. Sarah found work as a laundress, earning barely more than a dollar a day. She was determined to make enough money to provide her daughter with formal education. During the 1880s, she lived in a community where Ragtime music was developed; she sang at St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church and started to yearn for an educated life as she watched the community of women at her church.Sarah suffered severe dandruff and other scalp ailments, including baldness, due to skin disorders and the application of harsh products to cleanse hair and wash clothes. Other contributing factors to her hair loss included poor diet, illnesses, and infrequent bathing and hair washing during a time when most Americans lacked indoor plumbing, central heating, and electricity. Initially, Sarah learned about hair care from her brothers, who were barbers in St. Louis. Around the time of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (World's Fair at St. Louis in 1904), she became a commission agent selling products for Annie Turnbo Malone, an African-American hair-care entrepreneur, millionaire, and owner of the Poro Company. Sales at the exposition were a disappointment since the African-American community was largely ignored. While working for Malone, who would later become Walker's largest rival in the hair-care industry, Sarah began to take her new knowledge and develop her own product line. In July 1905, when she was 37 years old, Sarah and her daughter moved to Denver, Colorado, where she continued to sell products for Malone and develop her own hair-care business. A controversy developed between Annie Malone and Sarah because Malone accused Sarah of stealing her formula, a mixture of petroleum jelly and sulfur that had been in use for a hundred years.Following her marriage to Charles Walker in 1906, Sarah became known as Madam C. J. Walker. She marketed herself as an independent hairdresser and retailer of cosmetic creams. ("Madam" was adopted from women pioneers of the French beauty industry.) Her husband, who was also her business partner, provided advice on advertising and promotion; Sarah sold her products door to door, teaching other black women how to groom and style their hair.In 1906, Walker put her daughter in charge of the mail-order operation in Denver while she and her husband traveled throughout the southern and eastern United States to expand the business. In 1908, Walker and her husband relocated to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where they opened a beauty parlor and established Lelia College to train "hair culturists". As an advocate of black women's economic independence, she opened training programs in the "Walker System" for her national network of licensed sales agents who earned healthy commissions (Michaels, PhD. 2015). After Walker closed the business in Denver in 1907, A'Lelia joined her in Pittsburgh. In 1910, when Walker established a new base in Indianapolis, A'Lelia ran the day-to-day operations in Pittsburgh. A'Lelia also persuaded her mother to establish an office and beauty salon in New York City's growing Harlem neighborhood in 1913; it became a center of African-American culture.In 1910, Walker relocated her businesses to Indianapolis, where she established the headquarters for the Madam C. J. Walker Manufacturing Company. She initially purchased a house and factory at 640 North West Street. Walker later built a factory, hair salon, and beauty school to train her sales agents, and added a laboratory to help with research. She also assembled a staff that included Freeman Ransom, Robert Lee Brokenburr, Alice Kelly, and Marjorie Joyner, among others, to assist in managing the growing company. Many of her company's em.... Discover the J D Walker popular books. Find the top 100 most popular J D Walker books.

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  • L.D. Fitzgerald v. Lloyd J. Walker synopsis, comments

    L.D. Fitzgerald v. Lloyd J. Walker

    Supreme Court Of Idaho

    negligent in his handling of certain legal claims. A jury returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiff. After posttrial motions, both plaintiff and defendant appeal. We affirm.

  • Private Dancer synopsis, comments

    Private Dancer

    Kimberly Dean

    Torn between two worlds, Alicia struggles to find a way to walk with her faith, but still dance with sin.When Alicia gets caught in the conflict between her father’s church and the...

  • Dream On, Brother. Dream On synopsis, comments

    Dream On, Brother. Dream On

    D. J. Walker

    Mauri Bale and her brother Stan are biracial, born and raised in Queens. Mauri has started an accounting career and Stan is still in college. After their father's death they travel...

  • L.D. Fitzgerald v. Lloyd J. Walker synopsis, comments

    L.D. Fitzgerald v. Lloyd J. Walker

    Supreme Court Of Idaho

    This is a legal malpractice case in which the plaintiffs sole expert witness on the question of breach informed them on the first day of trial, while the jury was being selected, t...

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    Dancing Mountain

    D. J. Walker

    Dancing Mountain is the second book in the threebook Jeli series, about a momentous clash between African and Mycenaean god families. It is advisable to read the first bo...

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    Nika Rising

    D. J. Walker

    The shapeshifter Tek lives on, but time moves strangely. He befriends Nika, a young servant and an owl shapeshifter in the mid1700s.Fierce, independent Nika she is all but a slave...

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    Thwortle

    D. J. Walker

        Fleeing from the terrifying Shades, Mark escapes to magical Nolin, arriving with a 'splash' in the home of the wizar Miles and his two daughters. Warily, Miles welcom...

  • The Best of J.D. Walker Box Set synopsis, comments

    The Best of J.D. Walker Box Set

    J.D. Walker

    Finding love isn’t easy, and holding onto it can be even harder. In this anthology, harsh words and miscommunication between men aren’t helpful, and jealous lovers with wellmeaning...

  • J. Walker Pope and Richard D. Pope synopsis, comments

    J. Walker Pope and Richard D. Pope

    En Banc. Supreme Court of Florida

    Per Curiam. This cause having heretofore been submitted to the Court upon the transcript of the record of the judgment herein, and briefs and argument of counsel for the respectiv...

  • Matter Charles J. Walker Et Al. v. Board Education Olean City School District synopsis, comments

    Matter Charles J. Walker Et Al. v. Board Education Olean City School District

    Supreme Court of New York

    Order unanimously reversed, without costs, and petition dismissed, without prejudice to any administrative action deemed advisable. Memorandum: Respondent appeals from an order den...

  • Sinuous Passages synopsis, comments

    Sinuous Passages

    D. J. Walker

    Tek and Nika go to the Sky World, from which Tek is elevated, and Nika falls. Nika falls into the indigenous Nation, in the year 2572, where a mythical snake wreaks havoc.Sinuous P...

  • Sliver Of Evil synopsis, comments

    Sliver Of Evil

    D. J. Walker

         In the old stories about shapeshifters, they were always fearsome predators.     Until there was Tek . . . a young deer shapeshifter.   ...

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    A Short Book of Short Poems

    D.J. Walker

    Perhaps the most accurate book title ever. Seventeen bitesized poems, snapshots of the poet's mind as he reflects on life, love, depression and all the things that make the world i...