Madam C. J. Walker

Madam CJ Walker Uncovering an Indiana Treasure Madam CJ Walker was an uneducated woman and child of 2 former slaves. She was the first woman of either race to make money and become wealthy and successful completely on her own. Madam Walker only had 2 dollars and a dream when she began her business of manufacturing and distributing hair growth improvement shampoo. She started selling by going door to door, which turned into a full on manufacturing business. With this money, she quickly became a philanthropist

were Madame C.J. Walker and Samuel Zemurray. The lives of Samuel Zemurray and Madame C.J. Walker illuminate the tensions and possibilities of the American Dream by creating their own hair line business and joining the fruit business in a time when that was extremely difficult, by having to teach themselves how to run their own business in ways that were different from most others, and by expanding their businesses throughout the United States and Central America. Madame Walker was born as Sarah

Sarah Breedlove, widely known as Madam C.J. Walker, was the first woman to become a self-made millionaire in any race. Becoming the first child in her family that was born into freedom, she went through a lot of rough times. Sarah was orphaned at only seven years old due to the death of both parents from yellow fever. With only her older sister caring for her, she then had to find work; she eventually started to work as a washerwoman. Her older sister married an abusive man, and he would sometimes

have not found it - for if I have accomplished anything in life, it is because I have been willing to work hard."—Madame CJ Walker In my previous writings, I’ve shared my mission and purpose. I also included information regarding my professional background to amplify my values and vision. However, I would like to explore the life of one exemplary business leader—Madame CJ Walker. Walker’s path to success was during a tumultuous time in our American history. America is a multi-cultural mosaic, because

aspects of conservatism and oppression and rather upheld the Africana sense of governance and encouraged socialism in terms of a more broad and pervasive perspective on civil rights. Additionally, many leaders, Nelson Mandela, MLK, and Madame C.J. Walker, to name a few, made domestic and international differences advancing the Africana community through different inventions,

product because during those time the only prostitute wears it. It was seen and associated with seduction. Since women such as Elizabeth Aiden, Helena Rubensein who focus on white women beauty product, and Annie Turnbo Malone, and Sarah Breedlove (Madam C.J. Walker) focused on African Americans women beauty products (505). Women made the beauty industry their world. They made it

The two books, “On her own ground” which is the life of Madam C.J. Walker, and “The fish that ate the whale” based on Samuel Zemurray did an excellent job of illuminating the tensions and possibilities of the American dream during the 19th and 20th century in America. The American dream was what helped bring so much rich diversity and culture to the country in 19th through 20th century and even today, the American dream is broadly defined as an ideal that everyone has the equal opportunity to achieve

Madame C. J. Walker worked in the cotton fields in south. Eventually she was promoted from there to the washtub. Soon after that she was promoted to kitchen, and from there she promoted herself into the business of manufacturing hair goods and beauty preparations. In her own words Madam C. J. Walker believed she promoted herself into the Negro Business League’s 1912 convention and got her life together by this time. 5 years later

There she was, applying her usually powder to blurred her textured skin, using a bold dark pencil to line her lips and finishing it off with her plum-colored lipstick. I never got tired of seeing my mother do her makeup routine. I wanted to be just like her, she gave me baby power to smooth out my baby skin and a cherry lip gloss top it off. At night, my father skimmed section by section through my mother’s layered shoulder length hair apply her hair serum as she sat on the weaved chair with her

The world has experienced changes thorough time, as well as people. Not all people experience things the same way, it depended what race or which economic status where they in. Depending on that life was easy or hard. Nowadays historians can read a primary source that is the original piece, of any period of time and they can feel or analyze how people at that time felt. Freedom was different for all the people, and by analyzing three primary sources its evident that people use and felt freedom in