Madam C.J. Walker: Entrepreneur and Self-Made Millionaire

by P.J. Graham

Born into an African American family a few years after the end of the Civil War, the woman who became known as Madam C. J. Walker entered a world where slavery was still a very raw wound in American society. Although she was orphaned at a young age, C. J. Walker quickly learned about the world around her and how to adapt. The children of sharecroppers, she and her sister worked in cotton fields until Walker married at the age of fourteen. Eventually, she settled in St. Louis, Missouri, near her brothers. There, she started her own hair-care company, which grew into an empire and took her around the world. This is the story of Walker's inspiring perseverance on her journey to entrepreneurial success, filled with highs and lows which culminated in her becoming one of the wealthiest women in the twentieth century.

128 pages, Paperback

Published July 15, 2019

About the author

P.J. Graham is a freelance writer with an English degree and minor in communications, but she has countless interests and hobbies. For more than 20 years, she has developed her writing and editing skills while creating content for newspaper, marketing, technical writing, and web sites. She currently writes educational books, blogs, and articles on an array of subjects - projects that require research and to delve deeply into a subject are what most interest her.

Reviews

[Sue · Rating 2 out of 5]

Do not read this book unless you are desperate for info about Madam CJ Walker.. We are halfway through the Netflix series and thought I would read a biography.. This is like someone's awful term paper.. many items repeated more than once..kind of a monotone of writing.. and not truly about Madam Walker.. I found it on Hoopla as that is my source for books these days.. but I need to find another one.. maybe spend the $$ to get the book the series is based on.. who knows?

[Diane · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was a difficult book to read. Not only was the subject matter difficult to handle, but the writing did not flow well. I finished the book because I had bought the paperback version.