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Madam C.J. Walker : the making of an American icon

Ball, Erica

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Summary: 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 laundress, laboring in conditions that paralleled the lives of countless poor and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WALKER, C.J. BAL

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