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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 .... Discover the L J Breedlove popular books. Find the top 100 most popular L J Breedlove books.
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Sins of Omission
L.J. BreedloveWhat would you do to keep a secret?Bob Anderson local banker, city council member, and now murder victim had the goods on a bunch of people in Plains City, Texas. Everybody wan...
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The Show Goes On
Lois BreedloveThis may be his toughest battle.Jake Abbott, an injured Marine veteran, won a playwright competition with his script Afghanistan. The prize? A fullride scholarship to the Universit...
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Alpha Female
L.J. BreedloveA Fitness Spa Like You've Never Experienced BeforeProfessor Abby Stafford was burned out. She was overweight, middleaged, and tired. She'd even thought about suicide, but there wer...
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Trust No One
L.J. BreedloveWhen You Come for the Wrong ManHoward Parker wants to be Secretary of Homeland Security. And he isn't going to let a bunch of Marines who were in the wrong place at the wrong ...
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First Intermission
Lois BreedloveTwo weeks out of timeShe was a professor. He was going to be her student but not quite yet.Gail Abbott, assistant professor of theater arts, had just had a hell of a week. She'd b...
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Woman of Hat Island
L.J. BreedloveWeathering the Winds of ChangeYui Ito Yoshida had always lived on Hat Island. She didn't think she could live anywhere else. She'd faced trauma as a child, more trauma as an adult,...
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Everybody Lies
L.J. BreedloveShe fled her abuser, but a killer followed herPaul Kitka likes fast cars, women and his job as a lieutenant in the Alaska State Patrol. He likes living in Talkeetna, a small town f...
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Dead Tourist
L.J. BreedloveDace Marshall has cabin fever. It's February in Alaska. Go somewhere, her housemate advises. Take the train to Seward.What could go wrong?A short story in the Talkeetna series.
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His Campaign
Lois BreedloveHe's the Man She's Never ForgottenRebecca Jones and Jon Whitaker were childhood sweethearts since the day she ran his campaign for president in the sixth grade. He was destined fo...
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Seek and You Shall Find
L.J. BreedlovePromises to KeepCujo Brown owed no one anything. He had been a lone wolf for 40 plus years, and he liked it that way. No strings attached. Not to a pack. Not to a woman. Not even t...
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Deep Cover
L.J. BreedloveShe Won't Let Her People DownPeople's lives are on the line, and Katy Williams can't even pick up the phone.She's learning how to edit without using her hands. Her wrists are ...
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Hold Me
L.J. BreedloveNEWSROOM RULES: STAY SAFE. GET THE STORY. When the college basketball team traveled to Boise for a Thanksgiving tournament, the sports editor thought she did everything right:...
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Beta Wolf
L.J. BreedloveThey Were Promised A HomeBeta wolves. Powerful, dominant wolves banished by their birth packs because they were a threat to their pack Alphas. Cast out as lone wolves, they drifted...
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Nobody Cares
L.J. BreedloveFind them. Find the missing women.Paul Kitka, a lieutenant in the Alaska State Patrol, is halfTlingit, half white. And when an Inuit elder from Bethel gets the brushoff from the An...
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Leading Them Home
L.J. BreedloveHungry for a HomeWhen newly made shifter men started turning up in Vancouver, the Alpha thought it was a boon he wanted an army to march against the shifter rulers on the Nor...
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Rage
L.J. BreedloveALL HE FEELS IS RAGE.His father is dead. His lover is dead. Friends are gone or still recovering. The newsroom staff is exhausted. Everyone is looking to Cage Washington to show th...
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Pledge Allegiance
L.J. BreedloveFootball and the FlagIt's Texas in the 1980s. Football is king.A gifted Black high school quarterback says he won't play varsity football because they carry the Confederate fl...
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What She Wrote
Lois BreedloveSometimes You Get a Second Chance Angie Gregory teaches multiple sections of Writing 101 to freshmen. Semester after semester. Year after year. It isn't the life she'd dreamed...
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Power Grab
L.J. BreedloveSomeone Knows Where Shifters Came FromAlpha Abby Stafford sent Benny Garrison, a Teacher in the Hat Island pack, with her mate to the oldest pack in the world find their stor...
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What She Wrote Next
Lois BreedloveFool Me Once, Fool Me TwiceAngie Gregory put her job and even her life on the line to help out Michael Brewster, and he'd walked away with barely a thank you. Again.How could she b...
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Teaching Pool
Lois BreedloveAngie Gregory ended her engagement when a graduate student showed up at her bridal shower claiming that her fiance was the father of her child. And things went downhill from there....
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The Banker
Lois BreedloveShe Couldn't Leave, He Wouldn't StayFor two blissful months, Marilee Dupont had been in love. So maybe she should have asked a few more questions, she admitted. Maybe they shouldn'...
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Women of Power
L.J. BreedloveCan there be a third way?There exists a set of myths and prophesies known as the Wolf's Codex the Okami Kōdekkusu, probably the only written history of the shifter species. It com...
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Other Voices
Lois BreedloveHe's Off LimitsGail Tremont fled New York's bright lights to Moscow, Idaho, a small town that couldn't be more different. There she built a new life for herself as a professor in ...
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A Virtuous Woman
L.J. BreedloveA Woman's Place?Ruthie Brewster was on a mission to make sure every abused woman in Plains City, Texas, has a safe place to go.Until someone killed her.Plains City Gazette news edi...
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Power Corrupts
L.J. BreedloveJustice for AllNearly a year ago, a group of corrupt cops tried to kill two cops, and failed, thanks in part to Mac Davis, a Marine turned cop reporter for the Seattle Examiner. An...
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Safe Haven
L.J. BreedloveA Promise to KeepAbby Stafford promised that all girls would have access to the lifesaving serum that would see them through first transition. The first test subjects proved it wor...
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The Show Never Ends
Lois BreedloveTrouble Follows Her EverywhereTheater professor Gail Tremont thought the problems were over. Her stalker was gone. Stalkers, plural, actually. The fall student play was a success. ...
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Blood and Water
L.J. BreedloveIs Blood Really Thicker than Water?Life is good. Mac Davis, a former Marine, is now a cop reporter for the Seattle Examiner. He's had stories nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. He h...
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Rancher Woman
Lois BreedloveCan love truly conquer all?Marilee Dupont is running the ranch that has been in her family for generations. She never planned to do it alone. Now, at 35, it seems like the clock is...
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Somebody New
L.J. BreedloveShe's ChangedNaomi survived. A serial killer kidnapped her along with dozens of other women over a threeyear period. When they were rescued, Naomi wasn't the same person she had be...
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Redemption Road
L.J. BreedloveSome Things Haunt You ForeverThere is trouble in the Okanogan.Benny and Ryder Garrison grew up there, a part of their father's shifter pack. But their father has disappeared, and t...
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When No One Came
L.J. BreedloveIT'S EVERY COP'S WORST NIGHTMARESeattle Police Detective Joe Dunbar knew he'd screwed up big time, maybe even fatally. He swallowed hard, followed by a deep breath to steady himsel...
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Battle Lines
L.J. BreedloveFourteen of the most powerful shifters in the world will meet in Seattle. They will bring their staff, their agendas, and their vendettas. Most of all, they will determine the futu...
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One Big Lie
L.J. BreedloveShe Has No One Else to Turn toKate Fairchild was waiting in the conference room of the Seattle Examiner when Mac Davis got off deadline. Well, she probably wasn't Fairchild anymore...
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Second Intermission
Lois BreedloveWho Can Tell Her Story?Deborah Blessing is a German Baptist who has chosen to play a devout Muslim woman in the play Afghanistan. She's in awe of the playwright, a Marine veteran n...
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Stories We Tell
L.J. BreedloveAre We Journalists or Aren't We?There was no doubt in Cage Washington's mind. The studentrun Eyewitness News had to cover the Black Lives Matter protests in the streets of downtown...
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Missing Pieces
L.J. BreedloveProblems, But No SolutionsAlpha Abby Stafford keeps inheriting messes to clean up, and she feels like she's just scrambling to stay ahead of the crises. And every crisis seems to l...
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A Family Together
Lois BreedloveShe Won't Ask Him to StayHere it is! The conclusion to Marilee Dupont's trilogy.Marilee Dupont runs her family ranch, teaches agriculture at the university, and is the stalwart anc...
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Her Classroom
Lois BreedloveThey're Just Too DifferentRebecca Jones doesn't see how a relationship with Jon Whitaker can work not in the longterm. He's a conservative Republican in the Idaho state Senat...
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Girls School
L.J. BreedloveNo One Knows Where They Come FromThe Wolf Harbor Boarding School was mostly just a fantasy, until the students started showing up on their doorstep. First there was Pi, a Cambodian...
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Choose
L.J. BreedloveWHAT DO YOU DO WHEN ALL YOUR CHOICES SUCK?As far as the studentrun Eyewitness News is concerned, J.J. is a journalist. And if he wants to cover the Black Lives Matter protests, EWN...