Candlewick Biographies: Vision of Beauty: Candlewick Biographies: The Story of Sarah Breedlove Walker (Paperback)

from cmiller05

Growing up, Sarah Breedlove Walker had a very hard life. By working hard and believing in her dreams, she was not only able to start one of the most successful companies of a colored person at the time, but also help in the push for civil rights and women's rights.

from hlmusiclover

Lasky's written biography of Madam C.J. Walker is an astonishing piece of work that chronicles Mrs. Walker's struggles and accomplishments. Her innovations in beauty care products had a positive influence on how African American women viewed themselves in terms of beauty. She established her own ...

from magen.rauscher

The author of this biographical book really empowers the reader to imagine what it must have been like to have lived after the civil war. Sarah Walker was born right after slavery was made illegal. Her parents were sharecroppers to their former slave owners. Her parents made it a priority to get ...

from whitneyw

This book takes you on a journey begging in Louisiana in the 1870's and ending in 1918. It is the story of Madam C J Walker and its great because its starts from a child's perspective and end with a grown African American woman who built an empire by mixing products to improve the state of Africa...

from Annalisebradshaw

This is the biography of Sara Breedlove Walker who was born into the poor, African American community of the cotton fields in the South right after slavery was abolished. From there she worked her way through life supporting her daughter's education and eventually developing her own hair products...