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Madam C.J. Walker: Entrepreneur and Self-Made Millionaire

By P. J. Graham

Book information

Publisher
LLC, Cavendish Square Publishing
Year
2019
ISBN
9781502645449, 2018058453, 2019001076, 9781502645432, 9781502645425
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
30 MB (31306905 bytes)
Series
Great American Entrepreneurs
Pages
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Time added
2023-01-13 13:25:49
Biography & Autobiography; History; Young Adult No

Description

Born into an African American family a few years after the end of the Civil War, the woman who became known as Madam C. J. Walker entered a world where slavery was still a very raw wound in American society. Although she was orphaned at a young age, C. J. Walker quickly learned about the world around her and how to adapt. The children of sharecroppers, she and her sister worked in cotton fields until Walker married at the age of fourteen. Eventually, she settled in St. Louis, Missouri, near her brothers. There, she started her own hair-care company, which grew into an empire and took her around the world. This is the story of Walker's inspiring perseverance on her journey to entrepreneurial success, filled with highs and lows which culminated in her becoming one of the wealthiest women in the twentieth century.

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