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Article: An Entrepreneurial Woman - The daughter of slaves, Madam C.J. Walker amassed a fortune making and selling hair-care products.(On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker)(Review)
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- The World and I
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- November 1, 2001
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David Conrads is a freelance author based in Kansas City, Missouri.
Book Info:ON HER OWN GROUND
The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker
A'Lelia Bundles
Publisher:New York: Scribner, 2001
415 pp., $30.00
The life of Madam C.J. Walker--the uneducated washerwoman who rose to become a fabulously wealthy entrepreneur--constitutes one of the most extraordinary rags-to-riches stories in the annals of American history. Born just after the Civil War, she seemed destined to the short life of misery and privation that was the sad lot of so many African Americans at that time. By the end of her life, Walker had built an international business empire, amassed a ...