Madam C. J. Walker
"[An] exhaustively detailed account of the life of Madam C.J. Walker." Booklist, Starred Review
Madam C. J. Walker—reputed to be America’s first self-made woman millionaire—has long been celebrated for her rags-to-riches story. Born to former slaves in the Louisiana Delta in the aftermath of the Civil War, married at fourteen, and widowed at twenty, Walker spent the first decades of her life as a ...
"[An] exhaustively detailed account of the life of Madam C.J. Walker." Booklist, Starred Review
Madam C. J. Walker—reputed to be America’s first self-made woman millionaire—has long been celebrated for her rags-to-riches story. Born to former slaves in the Louisiana Delta in the aftermath of the Civil War, married at fourteen, and widowed at twenty, Walker spent the first decades of her life as a ...
