By breathing life into scattered clues and dry facts, and with a deep understanding of the times and places through which Madam Walker moved, tells a story that stretches from the antebellum South to the Harlem Renaissance and bridges nearly a century of our history in her search for the distant tru...

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1. Verfasser:	Lowry, Beverly (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New York Knopf 2003
Ausgabe:	1. ed.
Schlagworte:	Walker, C. J. <Madam, 1867-1919> Geschichte African American women executives > Biography Cosmetics industry > United States > History Kosmetikindustrie USA Biografie
Zusammenfassung:	By breathing life into scattered clues and dry facts, and with a deep understanding of the times and places through which Madam Walker moved, tells a story that stretches from the antebellum South to the Harlem Renaissance and bridges nearly a century of our history in her search for the distant truths of a woman who defied all odds and redefined conventional expectations. Annotation. Lowry (creative nonfiction, George Mason U.) tells how a child born in a sharecropper's cabin to former slaves invented a hair- care product for African-American women, sold it successfully in a city she had just moved to, turned her little business into an empire, renovated a Harlem townhouse, filled it with treasures, and entertained there the most influential figures of her time.
Beschreibung:	481 S. Ill.
ISBN:	0679446427