On Her Own Ground

On Her Own Ground
Author: A'Lelia Bundles
Publisher: Scribner
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2002-01-01
Genre: 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.

All about Madam C. J. Walker

All about Madam C. J. Walker
Author: A'Lelia Bundles
Publisher: All about
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-12-14
Genre: 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.

Madam C. J. Walker

Madam C. J. Walker
Author: Erica L. Ball
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 165
Release: 2021-01-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 1442260394

"[An] exhaustively detailed account of the life of Madam C.J. Walker." Booklist, Starred Review Madam C. J. Walker—reputed to be America’s first self-made woman millionaire—has long been celebrated for her rags-to-riches story. Born to former slaves in the Louisiana Delta in the aftermath of the Civil War, married at fourteen, and widowed at twenty, Walker spent the first decades of her life as a laundress, laboring in conditions that paralleled the lives of countless poor and working-class African American women. By the time of her death in 1919, however, Walker had refashioned herself into one of the most famous African American figures in the nation: the owner and president of a hair-care empire and a philanthropist wealthy enough to own a country estate near the Rockefellers in the prestigious New York town of Irvington-on-Hudson. In this biography, Erica Ball places this remarkable and largely forgotten life story in the context of Walker’s times. Ball analyzes Walker’s remarkable acts of self-fashioning, and explores the ways that Walker (and the Walker brand) enabled a new generation of African Americans to bridge the gap between a nineteenth-century agrarian past and a twentieth-century future as urban-dwelling consumers.

Madam C. J. Walker

Madam C. J. Walker
Author: Sally Lee
Publisher: Pebble
Total Pages: 33
Release: 2019-08
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1977110584

In the early 20th century, Madame C.J. Walker identified a problem, one she herself had: African Americans had no hair care products specifically designed for their hair type. So what did she do? The uneducated daughter of sharecroppers researched, invented, tested, refined, and marketed her way to becoming a self-made millionaire! Historic photos fortify this inspiring rags-to-riches story.

Madam C.J. Walker

Madam C.J. Walker
Author: Alelia Bundles
Publisher: Chelsea House Pub
Total Pages: 111
Release: 1991
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780791002513

A biography of the Afro-American businesswoman whose invention of facial creams and other cosmetics led to great financial success and who, throughout her life, devoted herself to many social and political causes.

Be Fearless

Be Fearless
Author: Jean Case
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2019-01-08
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1501196367

Be Fearless is researched-based call to action for those seeking to live extraordinary lives and bring about transformational change. LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER * NATIONAL BESTSELLER Weaving together storytelling, practical tips and inspiration, the book will teach you how to put the five fearless principles to work so that you too can spark the sorts of remarkable breakthroughs that can impact the world. Philanthropist, investor, and technology pioneer Jean Case brings to life the five Be Fearless principles common to the people and organizations that bring about transformational change. When National Geographic Chairman Jean Case set out to investigate the core qualities of great change makers, past and present, from inventors to revolutionaries, she found five surprising traits they all had in common. These weren’t wealth, privilege, or even genius. What all of these exceptional men and women shared was that they had chosen to make a “big bet,” take bold risks, learn from their failures, reach beyond their bubbles, and let urgency conquer fear. Throughout Be Fearless, Jean vividly illustrates these principles through storytelling—from her own transformational life experiences, to Jane Goodall’s remarkable breakthroughs in understanding and protecting chimpanzees, to celebrity chef José Andrés’ decision to be a “first responder” and take his kitchen to the sites of devastating hurricanes to feed the hungry, to Madame C.J. Walker’s vision to build a hair care empire that would employ thousands across the country, and more. She shares new insights to stories you might think you know—like Airbnb’s tale of starting from scratch to transform the hospitality industry, to John F. Kennedy’s history-making moonshot—and gems from changemakers you’ve never heard of.

Madam C. J. Walker's Road to Success

Madam C. J. Walker's Road to Success
Author: Donnette Black
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 38
Release: 2010-08
Genre: 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.

Hair-Care Millionaire

Hair-Care Millionaire
Author: Edwin Brit Wyckoff
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 38
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780766034495

Introduces Madam C.J. Walker, who created a hair care empire and helped African Americans in the early 1900s.

Madam C.J. Walker

Madam C.J. Walker
Author: Margaret Hall
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781403432520

Introduces the life of Madam C. J. Walker, who invented hair-care products for African Americans, founded factories and beauty schools, and organized one of the first national meetings of businesswomen in the United States.

Madam C.J. Walker

Madam C.J. Walker
Author: Patricia Mckissack
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 26
Release: 2013-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1464611149

Don't wait for opportunities to come...get up and make them, said Madam C. J. Walker. She rose from laundry woman to become America's first black woman millionaire. Born in poverty, Walker set her sights on a better life and made her fortune by developing hair care and beauty products specially formulated for African Americans. As her wealth and influence grew, she also channeled her energies into working for civil rights and social change. This real-life rags-to-riches story is presented here in an engaging narrative by the McKissacks.