Madam C.J. Walker : the making of an American icon
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Published
Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2021].
Format
Book
ISBN
9781442260382, 1442260386
Physical Desc
xvi, 147 pages ; 24 cm.
Status
Waseca Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
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Published
Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2021].
Language
English
ISBN
9781442260382, 1442260386
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description
Madam C. J. Walker--reputed to be Americas 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 working-class African American women. By the time of her death in 1919, however, Walker had refashioned herself into one of the most famous African American figures in the nation: the owner and president of a hair-care empire and a philanthropist wealthy enough to own a country estate near the Rockefellers in the prestigious New York town of Irvington-on-Hudson. In this biography, Erica Ball places this remarkable and largely forgotten life story in the context of Walkers times. Ball analyzes Walkers remarkable acts of self-fashioning, and explores the ways that Walker (and the Walker brand) enabled a new generation of African Americans to bridge the gap between a nineteenth-century agrarian past and a twentieth-century future as urban-dwelling consumers. --,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Ball, E. L. (2021). Madam C.J. Walker: the making of an American icon . Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Ball, Erica L., 1971-. 2021. Madam C.J. Walker: The Making of an American Icon. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Ball, Erica L., 1971-. Madam C.J. Walker: The Making of an American Icon Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2021.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Ball, Erica L. Madam C.J. Walker: The Making of an American Icon Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2021.
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