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Author
Series
Publisher
Compass Point Book
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
990L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (112 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Language
English
Description
Presents photos, illustrations, and information about Madam C.J. Walker, an African American woman who became a millionaire after starting a hair-care business for black women. Discusses her childhood and upbringing, the beginnings of her business in St. Louis, the spread of her success, and her lasting legacy. Includes a timeline, glossary, index, Common Core connection, and resources for further information.
Author
Lexile measure
1020L
Language
English
Description
The author's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is the story of four generations in the life of an American family. Lyman Ward, a retired professor of history and author of books about the Western frontier, returns to his ancestral home of Grass Valley, California, in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Wheelchair bound with a crippling bone disease and dependent on others for his every need, he is nonetheless embarking on a search of monumental proportions: to...
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
620L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (24 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Language
English
Description
Briefly explores the life of Madam C.J. Walker, who was not only an inventor but a political activist and a woman of business who fought for civil rights and to this day is one of the most successful African-American business owners ever.
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xvi, 147 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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...
Author
Series
Publisher
12-Story Library, an imprint of Peterson Publishing Company and Press Room Editions
Pub. Date
[2016].
Lexile measure
720L
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Showcases the work and achievements of 12 of the world's most influential business leaders. Each spread contains fascinating facts about each business leader and how their accomplishments helped change the world.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
910L
Physical Desc
209 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
As a child, Laura Ingalls Wilder traveled across the prairie in a covered wagon. Her daughter, Rose, thought those stories might make a good book, and the two created the beloved Little House series. Sarah Breedlove, the daughter of former slaves, wanted everything to be different for her own daughter, A'Lelia. Together they built a million-dollar beauty empire for women of color. Marie Curie became the first person in history to win two Nobel prizes...
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
415 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Bundles, a journalist and great-great-granddaughter of Madam C.J. Walker, offers a lively portrait of an American businesswoman. Walker, the first freeborn child of slaves, rose from poverty to establish a successful hair-care business, became one of the wealthiest women in the U.S., and devoted herself to a life of activism and philanthropy toward race and women's issues. photo insert.
Author
Publisher
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Scribner trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
415 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits. genealogical tables ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Bundles, a journalist and great-great-granddaughter of Madam C.J. Walker, offers a lively portrait of an American businesswoman. Walker, the first freeborn child of slaves, rose from poverty to establish a successful hair-care business, became one of the wealthiest women in the U.S., and devoted herself to a life of activism and philanthropy toward race and women's issues..