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Author
Series
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science volume 127th ser., 2
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
""Ding Dong! Avon Calling!" A whole generation of Americans can sing those words to the tune of a two-chime doorbell. The Avon Lady was made famous in the 1950s by the legion of suburban women who rang doorbells and gave away tiny lipstick samples shaped like bullets. Some would know the Avon Lady through a stack of catalogs left in a staff lounge or on a counter at the beauty shop. Today, the Avon Lady most likely appears as an e-representative through...
13) Body and soul: profits with principles, the amazing success story of Anita Roddick & the Body Shop
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Founder of a beauty empire, Madam C. J. Walker was celebrated as America's first self-made female millionaire in the early 1900s. Known as a leading African American entrepreneur, Walker was also devoted to an activist philanthropy aimed at empowering African Americans and challenging the injustices inflicted by Jim Crow. Tyrone McKinley Freeman's biography highlights how giving shaped Walker's life before and after she became wealthy. Poor and widowed...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Madam C. J. Walker is reputed to be America's first self-made woman millionaire. 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. 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...
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 660L
Language
English
Description
In graphic novel format, tells the story of Madam C.J. Walker, who invented a line of African American hair products and cosmetics that helped her become the first self-made female millionaire of any race.