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Madam C.J. (Sarah Breedlove) Walker (1867–1919), an African-American hair care and beauty products entrepreneur around the turn of the century, began development of the Walker Building and its theatre prior to her death in 1919; however, her daughter, A'Lelia Walker, in collaboration with Freeman B. Ransom, the Madam C. J. Walker Manufacturing Company's attorney, supervised the completion of ...
The Madam Walker Legacy Center was built in 1927. Indiana Avenue, where the block party was located, and its surrounding cultural district was a historic hub of Black entertainment, community and ...
She was named after her great-grandmother A'Lelia Walker (1885–1931), a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance [3] and daughter of entrepreneur Madam C. J. Walker. Bundles' mother, A'Lelia Mae Perry Bundles (1928–1976), vice president of the Madam C. J. Walker Manufacturing Company and active in local and state Democratic politics, also ...
Madam C. J. Walker (born Sarah Breedlove; December 23, 1867 – May 25, 1919) was an American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and political and social activist.She is recorded as the first female self-made millionaire in America in the Guinness Book of World Records. [1]
The illustrious Sarah Breedlove, better known as Madam C.J. Walker, became one of the nation’s first women self-made millionaires more than a century ago by turning the use of hot combs, brushes ...
What began as a beauty shop once owned by Madame C.J. Walker is now a museum highlighting Black history in […] The post Atlanta salon-turned-museum houses hidden civil rights artifacts appeared ...
Madame C.J. Walker Manufacturing Company (Indianapolis, Indiana). The 1927 building housed the manufacturing company of Madam C. J. Walker (1867-1919), whose hair care products and cosmetics for Black women were hugely successful in the early 20th century. New Philadelphia Town Site (Pike County, Illinois). Founded in 1836 by Free Frank ...
Walker Theatre or Walker Theater may refer to: The Madam Walker Legacy Center in Indianapolis, Indiana; Burton Cummings Theatre in Winnipeg, Manitoba;