Madame C.J. Walker

by Penny Colman

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1562943383
• ISBN13: 9781562943387
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Millbrook Press
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.8" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 7 to 9 years
• Grade Range: Grades 2 to 4

Customer Reviews

Madam C.J. Walker Building A Business Empire

Madam C.J. Walker Building A Business Empire By: Kryston Centis Madam C.J. Walker was one of the most richest African American women. She got rich by making haircare products for African American women. She sold the product that she made door to door first then she bought a house and used that for her office. When she sold her products from her house she mailed them. Finally she moved again where she could get a house and a business space. She started hiring people to work there and soon there were too many people so she made it bigger, hired a small amount of people and stopped hiring. Madam C.J. Walker liked to move to different places where she thought could get her more business. She seemed that she liked working and liked being accompanied by someone. People liked her for making their hair look better. The problem is that some of the people thought that Madam C.J. Walker was making their hair look like the white woman's hair. The women didn't like this and stopped buying her products. She wasn't happy and did something about it. Another problem was that Madam C.J. Walker was having heart problems and when people told her to rest she wouldn't. She talked to the customers and told them that they are all individuals and would never look the same as anyone else. Her customers started buying her products again. Madam C.J. Walker got very sick and died . I would recommend this book to someone else because you will learn something new about someone else. It was a good book and I learned something about her myself.