ISBN: 9780679446422

"I am a woman that came from the cotton fields of the South; I was promoted from there to the wash-tub; then I was promoted to the cook kitchen, and from there I promoted myself into the … Mehr…

"I am a woman that came from the cotton fields of the South; I was promoted from there to the wash-tub; then I was promoted to the cook kitchen, and from there I promoted myself into the business of manufacturing hair goods and preparations." --Madam C. J. Walker, National Negro Business League Convention, 1912 Now, from a writer acclaimed for her novels and the memoir Crossed Over, a remarkable biography of a truly heroic figure. Madam C. J. Walker created a cosmetics empire and became known as the first female self-made millionaire in this nation's history, a noted philanthropist and champion of women's rights and economic freedom. These achievements seem nothing less than miraculous given that she was born, in 1867, to former slaves in a hamlet on the Mississippi River. How she came to live on another river, the Hudson, in a Westchester County mansion, and in a New York City town house, is at once inspirational and mysterious, because for all that is known about the famous entrepreneur, much that occurred before her magnificent transformationyears that trace a circuitous route across the countryremains obscure. By breathing life into scattered clues and dry facts, and with a deep understanding of the times and places through which Madam Walker moved, Beverly Lowry 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. "Wherever there was one colored person, whether it was a city, a town, or a puddle by the railroad tracks, everybody knew her name." --Violet Davis Reynolds, Stenographer, Madam C. J. Walker Co Media > Book, [PU: Random House; Alfred A. Knopf]<

2003, ISBN: 9780679446422

Gebundene Ausgabe

Knopf, Gebundene Ausgabe, Auflage: 1, 496 Seiten, Publiziert: 2003-04-22T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, 2 kg, Sozialwissenschaft, Kategorien, Bücher, Frauen, Bestimmte Gesellschaftgruppe… Mehr…

Knopf, Gebundene Ausgabe, Auflage: 1, 496 Seiten, Publiziert: 2003-04-22T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, 2 kg, Sozialwissenschaft, Kategorien, Bücher, Frauen, Bestimmte Gesellschaftgruppen, Biografien & Erinnerungen, Wirtschaftswissenschaftler, Profis & Akademiker, Länder & Ethnische Gruppen, Knopf, 2003<