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Madame C. J. Walker

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Alternate Names:

Sarah Breedlove Walker
Madame C. J. Walker
Sarah McWilliams Walker

Gender: Female

Life Dates: 23 December 1867 – 25 May 1919

Types:

African American
Businesswoman
Entrepreneur
Inventor
Member of committee or club

Note: She was the first Af. Am female self-made millionaire in America; m. Charles J. Walker in 1890s; friend of Mary Bethune. Daughter singer A'Lelia Walker Robinson

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Biographies (7 Total)

Madam C. J. Walker Author: Elizabeth Lindsay Davis . Collection Title: Lifting as They Climb. 1933
Madam C.J. Walker Author: Hallie Quinn Brown . Collection Title: Homespun Heroines and Other Women of Distinction. 1926
Madam C.J. Walker (hair-care products) Author: Ethlie Ann Vare , Greg Ptacek . Collection Title: Women Inventors & Their Discoveries. 1993
Madame C. J. Walker Author: Amy L. Alexander . Collection Title: Fifty Black Women Who Changed America. 1999
Madame C.J. Walker (Sarah Breedlove) Author: Deborah G. Felder . Collection Title: The 100 Greatest Women of All Time. 1996
Sarah Breedlove Walker Author: Gail Meyer Rolka . Collection Title: 100 Women Who Shaped World History. 1994
Sarah McWilliams Walker Author: Sylvia G. L. Dannett . Collection Title: Profiles of Negro Womanhood. 1964